Metro trains crash in rail yard

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A Metro train crashed into another that was stopped in a rail yard Wednesday evening, the latest accident for the transit agency in a summer of troubles.

The run-in, which the transit agency called an “unintentional coupling,” occurred about 6 p.m. at the West Falls Church rail yard off the Orange Line when a two-car train drove slowly into the shop and hit a two-car train already stopped there.

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