Page 8AThe Battalion/Wednesday, March 7, 1984 Bad axle and bearing blamed for derailment United Press International HENDERSON, N.C. — A bad bearing and a broken axle on a locomotive were blamed Tuesday for sending Amtrak’s Silver Star passenger train bar relling off the track at 79 mph, injuring at least 51 of the 269 people aboard. Most of the injuries were mi nor but a Columbia, S.C., man suffered a broken neck. All 18 cars and one of the three en gines pulling the New York-to- Florida train left the track. National Transportation Safety Board member Vernon Grose said at a news conference Tuesday the bearing and axle would be taken to Wilmington, Del., for analysis. “We don’t know which came first, the broken axle or the failed bearing,” Grose said. Ray Bullard, a spokesman for Seaboard Systems, which oper- A ii N o Friday, April 13 2nd floor MSC 8 to 1 PLAN NOW! ales the train for Arntrak and owns the track where the acci dent occurred, said investiga tors found an axle on the last of the three engines had snapped. “There’s no way it could have been a result of the derail ment,” Bullard said. “This is concurred in by Seaboard and Arntrak.” Noting that a trestle over the Tar River is only a quarter mile away, Grose said “I think there are good places to derail and there are poor places to derail and when you go over a bridge, that's not a good place to derail. You can say we are very fortu nate.” Bullard said the train was running at 79 mph, which is the speed limit for that section of track, when it derailed. It was raining at the time, but Bullard said the axle is believed to be the sole cause of the accident. “The track was not a factor, nor the speed nor the weather,” he said. 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Tens of’ tl loin across rarm to T :ar for 1V1 a i rrgesi free | ‘ "This is th Gulf, Socal may have to selfin: service stations if merged United Pi AUSTIN texas cnnit United Press International An Arntrak spokesman in Washington said damage to equipment was estimated at $1,485,000, not counting an other $55,000 in damage to the track. Seaboard crews worked in a steady rain Tuesday to re pair about 3,000 feet of track. The train derailed around 6:45 p.m., sending some cars down sleep embankments on ei ther side of the roadbed. PITTSBURGH — Standard Oil Go. of California and Gulf Oil Corp. might be forced to sell gas stations and refineries to overcome antitrust hurdles to their merger, the biggest in cor porate history, industry experts said Tuesday. “We are still dealing with a risk that the merger may not happen,” said oil analyst Alvin D. Silber of Dean Witter Rey nolds in New York. “Whether that risk is 5 percent or 20 per cent, it’s hard to say.” Socal, the nation’s fifth-larg- est oil firm, agreed Monday to buy sixth-ranked Gulf for $13.2 billion, or $80 per share, res cuing it from a hostile bid by Texas oilman T. Boone Pick ens. A combined Gulf-Socal would be the nation’s third- largest oil firm in terms of sales and the largest gasoline retailer, with a 10.1 percent market share, industry experts said. The massive deal could be halted if antitrust experts at the Federal Trade Commission ob ject. The agency said Tuesday it will investigate the plan. But the FTC and the compa nies are free to negotiate an agreement to resolve any objec tions. Texaco Inc. and Getty Oil Co. had to agree to sell 1,900 gas stations and other prop erties to win the government’s blessing of their $10.1 billion merger, the largest takeover ap proved so far. 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