Wausau Pilot & Review
Portage County Sheriff’s officials have identified the man who died Tuesday after colliding his tractor with a train at a rural railroad crossing as 74-year-old Dennis Brandl, of Milladore.
Emergency crews resopnded just before noon on July 11 to a report of a crash involving a train and a large farm tractor on Ed’s Lane in the town of Carson, just south of Carson City.
Police say Brandl was towing a large tanker used for hauling manure and was headed eastbound on Ed’s Lane when he tried to cross a marked railroad crossing. The tractor was midway through the tracks when the crash happened. A northbound train operated by Canadian National Railroad struck Brandl’s tractor, throwing him from the vehicle.
Brandl died at the scene.
