http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vN6jX4S8v8
From a local news report:
As a runaway train carrying 47 cars rumbled through Northwest Ohio yesterday, a crisis team at Jacksonville's CSX Transportation was on the phone with Ohio authorities to come up with a plan to bring the train to a stop, even flying members to the scene on a corporate jet.
For reasons not yet clear, both the engineer and the conductor had climbed off the train in a yard near Toledo, leaving no one aboard. Although the locomotive's brake was set, the train rolled out of the yard because the throttle apparently was open enough to overcome the brakes and start the train moving, sources close to a federal investigation said.
The train carried 47 cars. Most of the cars were empty and other cars were loaded with freight, primarily paper and lumber. Two cars contained molten phenol, a non-flammable product used to manufacture dyes, paints, pharmaceuticals and as a general disinfectant. It also contained some fifteen cars of ethanol, a highly flammable liquid.
Back in Jacksonville, the crisis team initially suggested derailing the train on a parallel track in Findlay, a city of about 40,000, but a derailing device failed.
In the end, the CSX crisis team decided to slow the runaway by using two chase locomotives. The train was moving about 25 mph when the chase locomotives caught up with it and coupled with the train to slow it down, Burns said.
Once the runaway train had been slowed to 10 mph, Jon Hosfeld, a CSXT trainmaster from Kenton, Ohio, ran alongside the train until he could board it.
