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Posted 31 January 2015 - 05:47 PM

Philly.com, 1/31:
 

CSX freight train partially derails in South Philadelphia

 

Authorities are probing the partial derailment of a freight train early Saturday in South Philadelphia.

The incident took place around 3 a.m. inside a CSX Corp. rail yard near 11th Street and Pattison Avenue, CSX spokesman Rob Doolittle said.

 

A three-locomotive, 111-car CSX freight train was traveling from Chicago to the Philadelphia area when 11 tank cars containing crude oil came off the tracks, he said. The cars remained upright.

 

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