Investigators inspect the wreckage of a Metra commuter train that derailed in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2003. About 200 people were on the train when the derailment occurred. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)
Kathryn Kuk, a Plainfield jeweler who was injured in a 2003 Metra derailment on the South Side along with her daughter Megan and husband Steven. The women were on the train with Steven Kuk, coming home after watching him run the Chicago marathon. | Provided photo
Kathryn Kuk, a Plainfield jeweler who was injured in a 2003 Metra derailment on the South Side along with her daughter Megan and husband Steven. The women were on the train with Steven Kuk, coming home after watching him run the Chicago marathon. | Provided photo
Kathryn Kuk, a Plainfield jeweler who was injured in a 2003 Metra derailment on the South Side along with her daughter Megan and husband Steven. The women were on the train with Steven Kuk, coming home after watching him run the Chicago marathon. | Provided photo
Kathryn Kuk, a Plainfield jeweler who was injured in a 2003 Metra derailment on the South Side along with her daughter Megan and husband Steven. The women were on the train with Steven Kuk, coming home after watching him run the Chicago marathon. | Provided photo
A fiery train derailment scene has replayed in Steven Kuk’s head daily for the last nine years. People and glass flying, smoke and chaos are vivid in his memory. “It was very surreal, it was out of a movie with special effects, but we were …
