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Engineer who jumped from train before deadly collision sues BNSF
FORT WORTH -- A BNSF Railway employee who jumped from a train before a deadly collision in the panhandle this summer has sued the Fort Worth-based company over the crash.
Derek Schilling, the lone survivor of the crash that killed three BNSF workers, filed the lawsuit in Tarrant County civil court last week, seeking more than $1 million in damages.
Schilling, a 13-year employee of BNSF, was working as a locomotive engineer the morning of the crash.
He and Lara Taylor, a conductor who died in the crash, had left Wellington, Kan. about 1:45 a.m. on June 28, according to the lawsuit.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article116348868.html
