By Craig Sailor of The News Tribune, The Chronicle; December 19, 2017
They were the first passengers to use a $181 million railroad project that paralleled Interstate 5. It should have been a celebration Monday for everyone on board Amtrak Cascades 501.
Instead, it became a disastrous derailment that has killed three people and hurt nearly everyone on board the train, along with several auto passengers on the freeway below.
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