TRAIN VS SKID LOADER

The state patrol is investigating a collision between a train and a skid loader in Blue Earth Monday morning  just after 11 am.  Authorities say the train was southbound and the skid loader was trying to cross the tracks when it was hit.  The driver of the train 51-year-old James Dougherty of St. James and his passenger  27-year-old James Grisham of Altoona, Wisconsin were not hurt.  The driver of the skid loader is a 34-year-old man from Blue Earth.  No other details have been released.