Saturday, February 7, 2009

Lead Exercise #3

For the web site

The Amtrak Colonial train collides with three Conrail locomotives on a merger switch near Chase, Md, at 1:30 p.m. today.
The Conrails apparently ran a stop sign and collided with the Amtrak, which were all headed northbound, said Larry Chase, an Amtrak spokesman.

For the paper

The Amtrak Colonial train collides with three Conrail locomotives on a merger switch, yesterday afternoon, near Chase, MD.
The Conrails apparently ran a stop sign and collided with the Amtrak, which were all headed northbound, said Larry Chase, an Amtrak spokesman.

1 comment:

  1. Good except ... the version for the paper needs to be in past tense. Also, fix state abbreviation in version #2.

    9/10

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