Iowa Pacific In Oregon: Train To Christmas Town derails; passengers put on buses

A bumpy ride: Hood River’s Christmas Town Train derails

By KOIN 6 News Staff; December 1, 2017

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Becky Vonasek and her family were almost to Christmas Town. Elves were reading holiday tales, passengers were singing Christmas hymns and the train, filled with 214 passengers, was merrily making its way to meet Santa.

“Darnit, and then it happened,” Vonasek recalled.

The first sign of trouble were the bumps.

“And (then) elves’ eyes got really big,” she said.

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