Larry Sheldon  wrote:   
   > Anybody with FACTS about the incident or the territory?   
      
   This story from a Little Rock TV station   
   http://www.thv11.com/story/news/local/2014/08/18/hoxie-train-col   
   ision-names-released/14242249/   
   has the names of the deceased, and says they were both on a southbound   
   train from East St. Louis to North Little Rock.   
      
   The northbound train crew was injured; their train was northbound from   
   North Little Rock to East St. Louis.   
      
   An earlier story from the same source has a little more information on   
   the fire and evacuations:   
   http://www.thv11.com/story/news/local/2014/08/17/list-what-we-kn   
   w-about-hoxie-train-collision/14213051/   
      
   I can't find anything on ntsb.gov yet, other than a picture of an NTSB   
   investigator carrying the event recorder box from the lead southbound   
   engine (UP 9707).  The NTSB also posted this picture to Twitter:   
   https://twitter.com/NTSB/status/501479393827770369   
   https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvWc2XXIcAEKstk.jpg:large   
      
   http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/LocoPicture.aspx?id=32150 says UP 9707   
   is a GE C44-9W, built in 1994.   
      
   Looking at satellite images, there appears to be a rather long siding -   
   about 5 miles - through Hoxie and Walnut Ridge, AR.  The siding starts   
   at about Front Street and US 67 south of Hoxie, and ends close to where   
   AR 34 goes under US 67 north of Walnut Ridge.   
      
   Matt Roberds   
      
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