Train Accident Leaks Fuel Into Mississippi River
BNSF said it expects the tracks to return to service Monday morning. Cars in the Watertown derailment also would be phased out under a May rule from the Transportation Department, although those cars were built under a voluntary industry standard adopted in 2011.
Emergency responders including government officials and CP representatives were on the scene of the derailment as the train leaked oil.
Crews worked Monday to clear freight cars from rail tracks and contain spilled crude oil and chemicals after two trains derailed in Wisconsin over the weekend. At least 10 cars derailed on 8 November in Watertown as it headed eastbound, with a few of the cars leaking, Canadian Pacific Railway reported.
Late Sunday night, the company said 35 homes had been evacuated as a precaution, and that it had reserved hotel rooms for the families who lived in them.
Canadian Pacific said it is cooperating with federal investigators as they try to learn about the cause of the crash. No injuries have been reported and there was no fire.
Much of the spilled crude oil at the site of the derailment was immediately siphoned up and contained, according to Canadian Pacific spokesperson Andy Cummings.
In September, a part of BNSF’s essential observe in rural South Dakota was put out of service when seven automobiles of a ninety eight-automobile prepare carrying ethanol derailed and began a fireplace. Video footage of the derailment shows train carriages strewn across tracks atop a narrow causeway, which cuts through the Mississippi River’s center, and water can be seen on both sides of the ramp.
The train that derailed north of Alma on Saturday morning dumped an estimated 18,500 gallons of ethanol into the Mississippi River, officials said Sunday, as work continued to monitor the spill, rerail cars and fix tracks, with plans to re-open the tracks Monday.
“CP takes this incident extremely seriously”, the railroad said in a news release.
The practice was hauling quite a lot of freight, together with empty auto racks and tankers of ethanol.