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Alaska tourist train halts runs after derailment

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A vintage rail company that hauls hundreds of thousands of tourists every year along the route of the historic Klondike Gold Rush has suspended operations while it investigates a derailment that injured nine people. The derailment involved two vintage locomotives and four passenger rail cars, the company said in a written statement Wednesday night. Medical workers went to the scene, where responders outnumbered the injured, said Jeremy Zidek, a spokesman for the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. The train is a popular tourist attraction, taking passengers on a three-hour, 40-mile roundtrip tour out of Skagway.

 

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