
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 3, 1994                   TAG: 9406040017
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: TODD JACKSON
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

COAL TRAIN DELAYED BY CHICKEN GAME

A Norfolk Southern coal train was delayed for more than an hour Thursday night by a group of people on the tracks who engaged the train in a game of chicken, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office.

Norfolk Southern spokesman Bob Auman said an engineer stopped the eastbound train around 8:30 p.m. just west of McCoy in Montgomery County, near the Giles County line.

"It certainly is a scary thing to do," Auman said of the group's action.

There were no reported injuries and the people involved were not at the scene when sheriff's deputies arrived, said Sgt. C.C. Thornton.

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