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NAT. R.R. PASSENGER CORP. v. CONSOL. RAIL CORP.

Civ. A. No. 87-0277-OG.

670 F.Supp. 424 (1987)

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 3, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Morland and Harold Henderson, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff Amtrak.

Lawrence Shiekman and Gerald Norton, Washington, D.C., for defendant Conrail.

MEMORANDUM

GASCH, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

On January 4, 1987, a northbound freight train controlled by an engineer and a brakeman and owned by the Consolidated Rail Corporation ("Conrail"), failed to heed a series of slow and stop signals at a track juncture near Chase, Maryland.1 Consequently the Conrail train entered the path of a high speed northbound passenger train operated by the National Railroad Passenger...

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