Two employees suspended in Metro rail yard derailment

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Metro has suspended two employees without pay for an accident in which a Red Line train derailed at a Metro rail yard.

A train operator and the interlocking operator in charge of rail yard movements had both “violated standard operating procedure” in the March 10 incident, according to the transit agency.

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