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Union Pacific Railroad Co. v. United States ex rel U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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Before MURPHY, EBEL, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

On May 23, 2003, a train owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad Company derailed when metal culverts beneath the tracks collapsed. The train had been traveling along the shoreline of Lake Eufaula, a man-made lake in eastern Oklahoma created as part of a United States Army Corps of Engineers project (the Project). Construction of the Project had required the relocation of existing railroad tracks and rail facilities belonging to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company, Union Pacific’s predecessor-in-interest. Under a contract (the Contract) between the railroad and the government to execute the relocation, the railroad gave the government certain land and rights-of-way, and the government agreed to build new rails and rail facilities, including the culverts at issue in this case. A clause in the Contract (the Exculpatory Clause) stated that the railroad would hold harmless and release the United States from any liability arising out of the construction, operation, or maintenance of the Project.

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