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Death on Tracks Prompts Official to Review Railroad Safety

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WOODBURN INDEPENDENT — When Shanti Platt was eight months pregnant, she watched a man die in front of her eyes. The young mother-to-be was waiting at a railroad station in Salem on what seemed like an ordinary morning when a man stepped in front of the train. She was looking right at him and, although his back was turned...