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Train strikes minivan at Marathon rail crossing, Marathon IA

Traffic

Reported: 9/25/2025 11:48 AM

Marathon, IA 50565

A train struck a minivan at a rail crossing near Marathon, Iowa. The vehicle occupants are reported to be okay. Crews are checking the position of the minivan relative to the tracks.

Audio|Source: Northwest Iowa Railroad

01:57

Transcript:

00:00

You hit a minivan at a crossing what mileposts over?

00:26

That job, 48, hit a minivan. What mile post? Over?

01:04

Marathon, okay.

01:05

You got a milepost jet, over?

01:13

Okay, coming up this south and I know I've got one that's got to come out of Sioux City and the train that's got to clear at Le Mars before I get you past Le Mars.

01:23

So I can get you down to the control point there.

01:25

I don't know if there's somewhere that you guys can't hold off there in North of 244 or if you guys need to be all the way back by Carnes, over?

01:36

Okay, everybody's okay, occupants and you get crews, okay, over?

01:52

Okay,

01:53

copy that. Which side of the track did the van end up on? Over.

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