(HAYS, Kan.)—

Update - 8:45 am: Authorities say the investigation into a train derailment in Hays this morning will be handled by Union Pacific police.

Crews are still on the scene battling the fire.

Right now, their primary concern is keeping the diesel fuel contained so it does not get into the water supply. They are still urging residents to conserve water to help free up resources so crews can continue to fight the fire.

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Drivers are also urged to avoid the area around the fire.

More than a dozen people from a mobile home park across the street have been evacuated. They will remain out of their homes at least until the fire is out.

No injuries have been reported.

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Authorities in Hays say a dozen train cars derailed and caught fire at 8th and Vine overnight. Those cars are carrying general cargo and freight.

The train was also hauling 20 cars of ethanol, but officials say those are still upright and on the tracks.

Two of the three locomotives caught fire, causing a massive fire which crews are still on the scene battling.

Due to the large amount of water needed to fight the fire, citizens in Hays are asked to conserve water and refrain from any outdoor watering until further notice.

Citizens are also asked to avoid the area of Highway bypass to 10th and Highway bypass to 10th and Highway bypass to Riley Street. Non-emergency personnel will not be allowed in the area.

Eyewitness Susan Moss tells us the fiery crash happened around 1:15 Tuesday morning just east of 8th and Vine. Moss says she heard screeching and the train horns going off before it hit a vehicle and burst into flames.

Reporter Heather Williams is on the scene. She says hazmat crews are on scene working to control the fire. Both Williams and Moss say you can still smell fuel burning for miles.

So far there are no reports of any injuries.

Crews from Ellis County, Victoria, and Ellis are helping put the fire out.

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Train derailment at the Port of Tampa; Fire Rescue on scene

11:26 AM, Jul 25, 2013

Tampa, Florida -- The Port of Tampa has been reopened to business traffic with permanent port credentials after a train derailed there early Thursday morning.

PHOTOS: Train derailment at the Port of Tampa

The train was coming into the port at 1 a.m. when it left the tracks, pulling twelve cars off of the rails -- and sending ten of those completely onto their sides, according to Tampa Fire Rescue spokesman Capt. Lonnie Benniefield.

Responders found three of the cars leaking ethanol, a flammable liquid that's often mixed with gasoline to fuel cars and trucks. When it's shipped by rail, ethanol is usually stored in a form that is more flammable than gasoline.

Hazmat-trained firefighters have laid down a coating of firefighting foam on top of the spill to keep it from catching fire.

The toppled train is blocking the main entrance to the Port of Tampa on Maritime Boulevard, and that may be the case for several hours. Trucks were allowed to use a side road to access the port starting at around 9 a.m.

Benniefield said equipment to place the rail cars back on the tracks is being sent from Atlanta to Tampa by railroad company CSX; righting the entire train could take until late Thursday night or some time Friday morning.

No one was hurt in the train derailment, which was originally reported as involving 15 cars. Benniefield said it's not clear yet why the train jumped the tracks. CSX and government agencies are expected to investigate the cause.

Typically, ethanol breaks down within a few weeks in the environment, so the impact to the soil and groundwater may be limited and not serious.

Comment by Shaun Kazuck on July 25, 2013 at 12:02am

Update: at least 78 dead and 143 injured !

The train derailed with such force that one car leapt 15 feet in the air and 45 feet from the tracks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/24/spain-train-crash?CMP=t...

Spain train crash: at least 35 killed, says head of Galicia region

Train derails outside northern city of Santiago de Compostela

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 24 July 2013 17.15 EDT

Spain train crash: the scene close to Santiago de Compostela where a train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol derailed. Photograph: Oscar Corral/EPA

At least 35 people have been killed after a train derailed outside the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, according to state media and eyewitnesses.

Train carriages lay on their sides with smoke billowing from the wreckage, photographs published on the Voz de Galicia newspaper website showed.

The head of Spain's Galicia region said that at least 35 people had been killed in the train derailment, although it was too soon to say what had caused the accident.

Eyewitnesses said that the derailed train, which was reportedly carrying 240 passengers when the accident happened, had caught fire after the crash.

"It was going so quickly … It seems that on a curve the train started to twist, and the wagons piled up one on top of the other," passenger Ricardo Montesco told Cadena Ser radio station.

"A lot of people were squashed on the bottom. We tried to squeeze out of the bottom of the wagons to get out and we realised the train was burning … I was in the second wagon and there was fire … I saw corpses," he added.

Another witness told the station they had heard an explosion before seeing the derailed train.

The Spanish government's main working hypothesis concerning the derailment is that it was an accident, a government spokeswoman said.

Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy was due to visit the site of the derailment, on the outskirts of the city of Santiago de Compostela on Thursday morning, she said.

"Rajoy is in an emergency meeting with the deputy prime minister, the interior minister and the public works minister," she said. "He will visit the site tomorrow morning."

Santiago de Compostela, the birthplace of Rajoy, is best known as the destination of an ancient Catholic pilgrimage route.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/world/europe/scores-are-feared-de...

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Train Derails in Southern Albemarle

Posted: Jul 18, 2013 4:13 PM CDTUpdated: Jul 18, 2013 9:03 PM CDT

NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather

a train derailed near the James River west of Scottsville

Crews are dealing with a big mess in southern Albemarle County after a train derailed.

Twenty-nine cars hauling loads of coal went off the tracks near Hatton Grange Farm along the James River west of Scottsville.

Police say no one was hurt, but the lost coal is making for a hefty cleanup job.

The CSX rail company says the derailment closed a portion of Warren Ferry Road.

The company doesn't yet know the cause, nor does it give an estimate of when cleanup will be complete or when train service will resume.

The train was headed from Peach Creek, West Virginia to Newport News.

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Metro-North Hudson line suspended, freight train derails

Updated at 11:03 PM today

Eyewitness News

Riverdale

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Metro-North's Hudson line service is suspended due to a freight train derailment in the Bronx.

The freight train derailed on the Metro-North tracks near the Spuyten Duyvil train station.

Hudson Line service has been suspended in both directions.

10 of the 24 cars on the freight train derailed just east of the station behind Kennedy High School. The train is still upright but blocking both tracks that run through the area.

The train picked up garbage from the Oak Point Yard in the Bronx, which is a CSX freight railroad yard used for local deliveries. It was heading northbound when it derailed.

There was a conductor, engineer and break man on the train at the time of the derailment. None of them were injured.

This was not a passenger train.

The Friday morning commute will be affected by the derailment.

Buses are bridging service between the Marble Hill and Riverdale train stations in the Bronx. Customers going north will take a train from Grand Central to Marble Hill, take a bus from there to Riverdale, and then board another train from Riverdale north.

Customers going to Grand Central will get off at Riverdale, take a bus to Marble Hill, and then take another train to Grand Central.

Metro-North says this is most likely how the morning commute will run. They are advising customers coming into Manhattan Friday morning to either take the Harlem Line, or a 1 train to the West Side from Marble Hill.

Metro-North says this derailment happened in the worst place possible, in an area known as the "rock cut." When the tracks were built, crews had to blast the cliff and built only two tracks through the area.

The Hudson Line goes from four tracks to two in the rock cut and then back to four tracks. There are cliff walls on both sides. It is an area that is very hard to get to and the process of moving the train will be long and tedious.

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Train derails in Benbrook

Posted: Jul 18, 2013 6:59 AM CDTUpdated: Jul 18, 2013 9:49 AM CDT

BENBROOK, Texas -
A Union Pacific train derailed near the border of Tarrant and Parker counties.

Benbrook Fire Chief Tommy Davis said the accident happened around 5:30 a.m. Thursday on the line that runs along Aledo Road. A locomotive and five rail cars came off the track.

The 45-car train en-route to Dallas from Tucson, Ariz. had been carrying mostly paper products and not any hazardous materials.

But cleanup will still take a few hours. Union Pacific will need to bring in heavy equipment to upright the locomotive.

A spokesman for Union Pacific said at least one employee was hurt and taken to the hospital. His injuries are believed to be minor.

The cause of the derailment is still unknown.

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Train Derails on Buffalo's East Side

11:48 PM, Jul 17, 2013

BUFFALO, NY- Buffalo firefighters were busy on Wednesday night cleaning up after a train derailment on the city's east side.

Managers at CSX Rail say three cars on a train jumped the tracks on an overpass at William and Fillmore in Buffalo.

The train was heading from Indianapolis to Albany.

A small amount of ethanol was spilled, but no one was hurt and no neighbors were evacuated.

There's no word on what caused the derailment.

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Train derailment leaves 23 injured

The Nation July 17, 2013 11:13 am

Foreign nationals were among the 23 passengers injured when a Chiang Mai-bound train derailed in Phrae province early on Wednesday morning.

The passengers were sleeping when the train's seven compartments toppled over onto their sides in Denchai district at about 3am.

Eighteen foreign tourists, among them residents of Australia, France, Spain, Japan and the United States, suffered minor injuries, including those from and the United States.

The overnight sleeper express train had about 300 passengers on board when the accident took place.

"Derailments happen quite often," said State Railway of Thailand governor Prapat Chongsanguan.

The tracks were undergoing upgrading.

Buses and vans were mobilised to transport affected passengers, local and foreign, from Denchai to Chiang Mai. Three foreigners suffered broken arms and 24 passengers had minor injuries. They were sent to the district hospital.

Chalermwoot Rakkhatiwong, Denchai district chief, said all passengers have been transferred from the scene.

The train left Bangkok at 7pm on July 16.

The accident has resulted in suspension of the northbound trains and a change in schedules. Express trains scheduled to run today between Bangkok and Chiang Mai have been cancelled. Normal trains from Chiang Mai will operate as usual, but passengers in Chiang Mai, Lamphun and Lampang will have to take buses to board the train at Uttaradit station. Affected passengers can return tickets and receive full compensation.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on July 16, 2013 at 7:39pm

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Cause of Hays train derailment/fire under investigation

by Heather WilliamsKWCH 12 Eyewitness News

8:51 a.m. CDT, July 16, 2013

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Norfolk Southern freight train derails north of Millsboro Jul. 14, 2013 12:07 PM

Delaware State Police are investigating a Norfolk Southern freight train derailment north of Millsboro early this morning. / Courtesy Delaware State Police

Delaware State Police are investigating a Norfolk Southern freight train derailment north of Millsboro early this morning.

It happened on the railroad tracks between West State Street and Patriots Way at 4 a.m.

About 70 train cars hauling stone were being pulled by two locomotives and were traveling south on the tracks in a wooded area north of Millsboro, Sgt. Paul G. Shavack said in a release.

He said a preliminary investigation indicates that the derailment happened on a section of the tracks east of U.S. 113. The tracks run parallel with the highway between West State Street and Patriots Way.

Shavack said 15 of the cars were forced off the tracks and spilled stone as a result of the derailment, while the rest remained upright. He said the two locomotives derailed but remained upright as well.

The train conductor and engineer were not injured, he said.

About a three-quarter mile length of track was destroyed or heavily damaged, Shavack said, but there are no threats to the environment or surrounding community due to the derailment, and roads remain open in the area.

State police and Norfolk Southern officials are continuing to investigate the derailment.