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The Pecos City Train Derailment: One Dead, Four Injured After a Stalled Truck on Highway 285 Tracks Sent a Train Into a Building If you are reading this at 2 a.m., you are probably the wife, the husband, the child, or the parent of someone who was killed or hurt when that train derailed in Pecos. Or you were in the Chamber of Commerce building when the train hit it. Or you were on the train. Whoever you are, you did not expect to be here tonight, and the fact that you are searching for answers at this hour tells us everything about where you are. We are going to give you what we would want if we were sitting where you are sitting — not a sales pitch, not a brochure, but the truth about what happened, what the law allows, what the evidence looks like, and what the next 72 hours demand from anyone who wants to hold the right companies accountable. Here is the first thing to understand: a commercial truck should never be stalled on active railroad tracks. A train should never derail into a public building. One or more companies failed in their duties, and…