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. Moon 

    It'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.