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English: "The crack passenger train, Empire Builder, bound from Seattle to Chicago, wasstruck by a tornado. The train was traveling nearly 60 miles an hour whenstruck. Only the 136-ton locomotive remained on the track."
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A passenger train that was derailed by a tornado east of Moorhead, Minnesota on May 27, 1931.

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