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Derailed Freight Train Pushed Outside No.109 Tunnel

The first tanker car of the damaged freight train is pushed downhill outside the No.109 tunnel of the Baoji-Chengdu railway by rescue workers in Fengxian County, north China's Shaanxi Province, May 18, 2008. The first car of a freight train derailed and trapped by the earthquake was removed from the tunnel in the morning of May 18. The Baoji-Chengdu Railway was still paralyzed.

The first tanker car of the damaged freight train is pushed outside the No.109 tunnel of the Baoji-Chengdu railway by rescue workers in Fengxian County, north China's Shaanxi Province, May 18, 2008. The first car of a freight train derailed and trapped by the earthquake was removed from the tunnel in the morning of May 18. The Baoji-Chengdu Railway was still paralyzed.

A fire fighter walks past the second tanker car of the damaged freight train at the No.109 tunnel of the Baoji-Chengdu railway in Fengxian County, north China's Shaanxi Province, May 18, 2008. The first car of a freight train derailed and trapped by the earthquake was removed from the tunnel in the morning of May 18. The Baoji-Chengdu Railway was still paralyzed.

Yang Xiuping (L, front), whose relative was killed by the quake, works with colleagues during a cleaning operation at No.109 tunnel of the Baoji-Chengdu railway in Fengxian County, north China's Shaanxi Province, May 18, 2008. A total of 193 workers from Sichuan Province, have worked day and night at the tunnel from May 12 when quake caused the collapse of mountains and a passing freight train loading gasoline derailed and fired inside the tunnel after hit rock dislodged by the quake, making the railway closed to traffic.

(Xinhua News Agency May 19, 2008)


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