2nd train derails in Wisconsin in 2 days

Canadian Pacific says one auto was punctured and it leaked less than 1,000 gallons of oil.

BNSF Railway crews say they are transloading the ethanol and re-railing the tank cars Sunday.

In September, part of BNSF’s main track in rural South Dakota was put out of service when seven cars of a 98-car train carrying ethanol derailed and started a fire.

Cleanup continued all day Sunday in Alma, Wis., where a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train derailed Saturday morning.

However, he said there is still a lot of work to do, and the city is continuing to monitor the situation.

The track is being repaired and the main line is expected to be clear at 6 p.m. local time (00:00 GMT), the company said.

With the Wisconsin accidents, at least 26 oil trains and 11 ethanol trains have been involved in major fires, derailments or spills during the past decade in the USA and Canada, according to an Associated Press tally from data kept by transportation agencies and safety investigators from the two nations.

11/12/2015A broken rail on a train track is being blamed for causing a derailment in southeastern Wisconsin on Sunday. A few of the cars derailed into the water, with five of the tanker cars leaking into the Mississippi.

The company said the leaking vehicle has been sealed and the spilled oil has been contained and siphoned off.

Police say they evacuated those near the derailment site as a precaution and shutdown Wis. Hwys 35 and 37 for more than five hours Saturday.

The Federal Railroad Administration is focusing on mechanical and track cause as the reason for derailment.

The railroad said Wednesday the defect was not visible to the naked eye.

A far less serious derailment, Schmid said, took place in Germantown in 2011 when only “a couple of cars” derailed.

This weekend’s ethanol spill was the third this year along a stretch of the Mississippi River, said Irving Balto, a member of the La Crosse chapter of Citizens Acting for Rail Safety, a citizen advocacy group.

The federal high speed rail project would have paid for track upgrades for both freight and high speed passenger service.