Local Union Pacific Employee Dies On Tracks

By Website on March 13, 2018.

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A 52-year-old locomotive engineer from Lincoln suffered a cardiac arrest March 5 at Union Pacificas Roseville yard, and died.

According to a report from the Governoras Office of Emergency Services, the incident occurred just after 6pm while a train was stationary on the tracks. Union Pacific and the Placer County Sheriffas Office confirmed the manas name was 52-year-old Peter Poching.

Poching had worked for Union Pacific for more than a decade.