Archive: https://archive.today/s5f42 From the post: >>A passenger train hit a tanker truck on Colorado’s Western Slope on Wednesday morning, causing the tank to split and spill an estimated 6,000 gallons of oil onto the ground. The train hit the semi-tanker at 9:40 a.m. while the truck was on the tracks along U.S. 6 near Mile Pond Road, just east of Rifle in Garfield County, the Colorado State Patrol said in a news release. The crash caused the tanker to split open, derailed six passenger cars and two locomotives and damaged the train track, state officials said. No train passengers reported any injuries, and the truck driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Buses are taking train passengers “to a safe location,” the state patrol said. U.S. 6 will be closed for an extended period of time.