The Nation - News from Oct. 18, 1985
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A freight train sideswiped Amtrak’s Zephyr at Thayer, Iowa, breaking windows on the passenger train and injuring 60 persons, authorities said. Most of the injuries to passengers and crew aboard the train en route to California from Chicago were minor, a hospital official said. An Amtrak spokesman in Washington said that the 13-car Zephyr, carrying 307 passengers and 21 crew members, was struck by a car of an eastbound Burlington Northern freight train. The Amtrak train did not derail, but many windows were broken.
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