Retired Colorado railroad engineer reacts to deadly I-25 train derailment

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Retired Colorado railroad engineer reacts to deadly I-25 train derailment
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Devan Karp is a Multimedia Journalist for KOAA News5 in Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado.

PUEBLO, Colo. — Dave Miller said in the more than 30 years he's lived in Pueblo, it's never taken more than 45 minutes just to get across town.

"In my experience, derails are not all that common, and that's from 40 years of being out on the rail," retired locomotive engineer Bruce Barrett said. Specialized crews are in charge of checking and testing rail tracks, according to Barrett, but he could not speak to the frequency of doing so. Barrett said that typically, these tracks can break for several reasons.

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