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On Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, the California Zephyr, carrying more than 175 passengers from California to Chicago derailed Friday after striking equipment near the tracks in southwest Nebraska, near the town of Max. A small number of people were taken to hospitals. The train collided with a demolition crane and 22 people were hurt. Two engines tipped on their sides and three cars behind them came off the tracks. The train hit a crane working on demolishing a silo along the side of the tracks. It wasn't the first accident on the trip going from San Francisco to Chicago as the night before the same train had hit a car.

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