Train derails in Mongolia with 328 people on board, casualties reported
Nine people, including three children, were as a train derailed near Airag soum, southeastern Mongolia early Sunday morning amid heavy rain, according to local media. There has been no information on fatalities so far. Emergency services are still working on the site of the accident. Railway traffic in the area is reported to be indefinitely halted.
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Freight train derails in Romania as viaduct collapses under its weight
A freight train carrying oil products derailed on Sunday morning, August 12, after a viaduct collapsed under its weight.
The accident occurred in Dolj county, in Southern Romania.
One of the railway lines on the viaduct was under construction and the first hypothesis about the accident is that the mechanic accidentally went on that line, local Mediafax reported. Moreover, the mechanic was drunk and he will be investigated for operating the train under the influence of alcohol.
The railway bridge collapsed on a distance of 50 meters and five wagons fell into a ravine. The train belongs to a private operator and had a total of 23 wagons.
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Train derails in Windber, blocking streets
WINDBER – Crews were responding to a train derailment in the heart of the borough on Monday night.
The derailment was reported shortly before 7:30 p.m. below Graham Avenue, Somerset County 911 officials said.
Windber Fire Chief Bob Haddad said no injuries were reported.
Norfolk Southern officials were inspecting the train and track to determine what caused the derailment and what it’ll take to address it, but Haddad said it’s likely the train won’t be moving until sometime Tuesday at the earliest. Somerset County 911 officials urged motorists to avoid traveling into the borough, if possible.
The 104-car train was hauling coal from the Mine 78 area, just outside the borough, Haddad said.
One of 10 Norfolk Southern rail cars that derailed Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, in Windber is shown.
Ten of its rail cars dislodged, leaving the entire train stranded along a 12-block corridor, between 17th and 5th streets.
Borough Manager Jim Furmanchik said it might be days before the derailment is cleared. Borough crews were blocking roads and posting signs along streets that were bisected by the train derailment.
“We’re stressing safety right now,” Furmanchik said. “And we’re telling people to be careful and stay back.”
It occurred on a section of the line that ran parallel to Jefferson Avenue, startling borough neighbors in the residential area that borders the line.
“I was sitting in my living room with my daughter and all of a sudden, there was this loud clunking sound,” 10th Street resident Mike Gindlesperger said. “Then, everything stopped.”
Gindlesperger ran outside to see a stretch of rail cars that had slipped off the track. At least one of them tipped sideways at an angle, but hadn’t toppled over, he added.
Given the number of buildings close by, “it definitely could’ve been worse,” he said
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