BEND, Ore. (BEND BUGLE) – A southbound BNSF freight train traveled at least 20 miles with its rear locomotive on fire Friday night, dropping debris along the way, until it came to a stop near Deschutes Junction north of Bend, where firefighters spent nearly three hours extinguishing the blaze.
“Somebody saw this train on the move up in Terrebonne with fire or smoke coming out of it” shortly after 9 p.m., Bend Fire & Rescue Duty Battalion Chief Darren Root told the Bugle on Saturday. “By the time they got the train stopped, they had one of their locomotives on fire.”
“It was dropping debris as it rolled down the tracks,” the fire official said. ”They had a lot of fire, but it takes miles for trains to stop.”…