A washed out roadbed blamed for wreck
Anchorage Daily Times
August 11, 1971




Alaska Railroad officials blame water-softened roadbed for the derailment Monday of five engines and 11 cars of a freight train near Houston.  The repair crews on the scene think it was a flash flood in the mountains that released a surge of water into the swollen Little Susitna River that caused the wreck.  One engine unit was righted and towed to Houston Tuesday afternoon.  Crews are presently at work building a new roadbed bypassing the wreck and the rail link is expected to be open tonight or tomorrow.
 
 

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