From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:railroad Newsgroups: fa.railroad Title: train crash in Emerson, Iowa Article-I.D.: ucb.1404 Posted: Tue Jun 22 15:27:46 1982 Received: Sun Jun 27 02:52:20 1982 >From MSM@MIT-MC Tue Jun 22 15:27:36 1982 Date: 16 June 1982 14:20-EDT From: David A. MoonIt's very unusual for a passenger to be killed in a train wreck. Can anyone remember the last time this happened? According to a friend of mine, Amtrak has had only 16 fatalities in its entire 11 year history. If you compare that with the domestic air and road transportation industries and I think you will find that rail seems to be the safest mode.