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Train engineer recounts moments before crash

MBTA releases radio recordings

MBTA engineer Ronald Gomes suffered facial cuts and bruises and lost his front teeth when a runaway boxcar crashed head-on into the commuter train he was operating Tuesday. MBTA engineer Ronald Gomes suffered facial cuts and bruises and lost his front teeth when a runaway boxcar crashed head-on into the commuter train he was operating Tuesday. (CHRISTINE HOCHKEPPEL/FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)
By Andrew Ryan and Milton Valencia
Globe Staff / March 28, 2008

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Recordings released yesterday of radio communications between MBTA commuter train engineer Ronald Gomes and a railroad dispatcher painted a dramatic picture of the moments before a runaway freight car smashed into Gomes's train on Tuesday. (Full article: 566 words)

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