A press release from Union Pacific Railroad; July 18, 2018
Union Pacific’s Chad Rose said it was hard to understand the scale of what happened until he looked inside the tunnel. “My first thought was, is everyone okay?” said Rose, Union Pacific senior director of maintenance of way.
“It was so surreal,” said Union Pacific’s Jamie Hill, senior manager of bridge maintenance. “We always respond to what Mother Nature throws at us. But I have never seen a large-scale collapse like this in my 20-year career. I’m not sure too many people have.”
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