Names of UP crew members in crash released

UPDATE 10/08/18 11:16 a.m.: The body of a second Union Pacific Railroad employee has been recovered from the site of last week’s train crash in southeast Wyoming.

KGAB-AM reports that officials also identified the two Union Pacific crew members who died in the Thursday night crash as engineer Jason Martinez and conductor Benjamin Brozovich.

The crash occurred about 18 miles (29 kilometers) west of Cheyenne when an eastbound train slammed into the back of another train that was parked on the rail line.

Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza says both victims were in the train that hit the parked train. No one else was hurt. More than 50 rail cars and three locomotives derailed.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.

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Authorities say a Union Pacific freight train crashed into the back of another freight train in southeastern Wyoming, killing at least one crew member with another missing and derailing more than 50 train cars.

Lt. Don Hollingshead of the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office says the crash was reported around 7:45 p.m. Thursday in a sparsely populated area about 18 miles west of Cheyenne.
Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza said Friday 56 rail cars derailed but no hazardous materials were released.

Espinoza says both eastbound trains were hauling mixed freight but one was stopped.

Contrary to earlier reports, Espinoza says no other crew members were injured. She says the crew of the stopped train had gotten off their locomotive before the crash.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.