MSP trooper honored 38 years after Bridgman derailment

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MSP trooper honored 38 years after Bridgman derailment

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There will be a service at the Lake Street crossing in Bridgman at 8:16am Thursday August 29th for trooper who died of cardiac arrest when CSX bomb train derailed at that crossing in 1981. The fumes he inhaled for 19 hours defoiliated every tree along the ROW at that crossing. They are placing a bench at the crossing in his honor. They finally considered it a in-line of duty fatality and rightly so.

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Went over to the ceremony this morning, nice memorial bench presented to the family, village and an abundance of MSP troopers from around. Started at 8:12am as posted and the Pere Marquette went by at 8:30 southbound to Chicago then 15 minutes later the CSX northbound freight which had been in the siding at New Buffalo proceeded past the assembled crowd. You couldn't have coreographed it any better than that. Chanel 22 WSBT and WNDU chanel 16 will have it on tonight.

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