Train Skewers Car Carrier In Washington, Gets Cadillac DTS Hood Ornament [Offbeat New

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/02/Balla-train.jpg" width="640" height="429" style="display:block;float:none;" /Last Friday in Kent, Washington, a train hit a car transporter stopped on the rails. Nobody was injured in the incident, but the train engine made off with a sweet new a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged CADILLAC DTS" href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/cadillac-dts/"Cadillac DTS/a hood ornament./p pThe circumstances of the accident aren't clear, but the impact smacked two cars off the carrier, and left two hundred gallons of diesel fuel from the semi-truck spilled in need of clean up. One thing is certain, it's a pretty strong reminder to never mix it up with trains. More amusingly for us, one of the cars, a Cadillac DTS, ended up hanging off the nose of the train like some kind of giant hood ornament mdash; with a hood ornament on it! [a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008690093_webtrucktrain30m.html"Seattle Times/a]/ppa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5Tvqjwpf9mFvk0VQDHpHwhFPS4E/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5Tvqjwpf9mFvk0VQDHpHwhFPS4E/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=4Gkvlm7C"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=mvYcHOgZ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=f6O8ukN1"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=f6O8ukN1" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=UKYlfj0p"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=UKYlfj0p" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~4/a43uXcWGqJ4" height="1" width="1"/

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