Man Climbs Aboard Train, Attacks Engineer With Knife Outside Of St. Cloud

By WCCO Staff, CBS Minnesota

September 21, 2022

Police say a man hopped aboard a freight train and attacked the engineer with a knife Tuesday morning in central Minnesota.

It happened at about 8:18 a.m. in Sauk Rapids on Benton Drive at 1st Avenue North. Police say a 42-year-old man climbed into the cab of a Santa Fe Burlington Northern train that had just left St. Cloud, pulling a rock train behind it.

The man then attacked the engineer, who was able to flee the cab and "jumped off the moving train."

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