NTSB Advisory
National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594
November 30, 2007
NTSB SENDING TEAM TO INVESTIGATE AMTRAK COLLISION IN CHICAGO
The National Transportation Safety Board is dispatching a Go Team to investigate the collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a freight train in Chicago, Illinois this afternoon.
NTSB Rail Investigator Ted Turpin will serve as Investigator-in-Charge and lead the 7-member team. Vice Chairman Robert Sumwalt will accompany the team and serve as spokesman for the on-scene investigation. Keith Holloway is the press officer accompanying the team.
Once the team arrives in Chicago, Holloway can be reached on his cell phone at (202) 557-1350.
NTSB Press Office: (202) 314-6100
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Map of Amtrak's Michigan state services into Chicago, with the ''Pere Marquette'' route shown in red. 
An Amtrak train collided with a parked Norfolk Southern freight train in Chicago on Friday. 30 people were injured, five of them Amtrak personnel who were most seriously injured.

Amtrak train 371, the ''Pere Marquette'', started in Grand Rapids, Michigan and carried 193 people on board including six crew members. The train was in south Chicago heading towards its destination of Chicago Union Station when the crash occurred around 17:30 UTC. No injuries were reported among the crew of the Norfolk Southern freight train. Amtrak's locomotive, a GE Genesis, was derailed by the force of the impact, although the rest of the passenger train remained on the tracks.
An Amtrak locomotive similar to the one that was derailed.
All Amtrak trains between Chicago and Michigan are currently cancelled while workers remove the locomotive from the scene and perform any needed repairs. A National Transportation Safety Board "Go Team" led by Ted Turpin was dispatched to the scene to conduct a federal investigation into the crash.