Dutch train caught by whale sculpture to be salvaged

SPIJKENISSE, Netherlands (AP) — A salvage operation is underway to lift a runaway metro train off a sculpture of a whale’s tail, where it landed after plowing through the end of an elevated section of rails. The train was left precariously balanced on the whale’s tail sculpture 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground Monday, after plunging off the end of a metro line in Spijkenisse, a town on the southern edge of Rotterdam. The train was empty at the time and the driver escaped un