On Monday, Harrison, the CSX chief executive officer, told customers in a memo that some employees were resisting aggressive cost-cutting measures at the No. “I am not suggesting the length of the train caused the accident but it could have been a contributing factor.” “It’s hard to keep track of where the train is, especially as it snakes behind you for more than two miles,” Risch said by phone. John Risch, spokesman for the transportation division of the SMART Union, which represents CSX conductors, said it is incredibly difficult for a small crew to handle a train with 178 cars. It said 128 cars carried mixed freight, including construction materials, paper and wood pulp. The train of five locomotives and 178 rail cars was traveling from Chicago to Selkirk, New York, CSX said.
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It came two days after CSX Corp CEO Hunter Harrison apologized to customers for service disruptions and said some railroad employees were resisting planned cost-cutting measures. This was the third derailment for a CSX train since last November.
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“They all got out safely, thank God for that,” Shoemaker said. There was no word on what caused the crash.Ī freight car skidded into a garage that caught fire, and at least two train cars were still ablaze almost 12 hours later, said Bedford County emergency dispatcher Mike Steele.ĬSX said one rail car containing liquefied petroleum gas and one car containing molten sulfur leaked and were on fire.Īuthorities ordered the evacuation of residents in a one-mile radius, which encompasses most of the town, as emergency crews worried about the risk of an explosion, Steele said.Īmong the residents driving out of town was 53-year-old Shannon Shoemaker, who said his whole family lives within 100 yards of the derailment site. CSX warned customers service disruptions would last for a week over a nearly 80-mile stretch between Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and Cumberland, Maryland.ĬSX said 32 cars derailed as the train moved through the town just before 5 a.m. No injuries were reported after the crash in Hyndman, about 100 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
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Rail cars carrying gas and sulfur on a CSX Corp freight train skidded off the tracks and burst into flames on Wednesday in a small Pennsylvania town, forcing hundreds of residents to flee their homes as firefighters fought the blaze.