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Posted 26 November 2014 - 10:25 AM

KXTV (NBC) Sacramento, CA, 11/25:  

Derailment sends section of train into the Feather River Canyon Eleven cars of a Union Pacific freight train derailed along Highway 70 in the Feather River Canyon, in Plumas County early Tuesday, sending loads of corn and several rail cars plunging into the canyon. Work began almost immediately to replace track and pull cars out of the canyon, but rail traffic had to be diverted to other routes as work continued Tuesday night. A small army of workers descended on the site just east of the tiny community of Belden, about 50 miles northeast of Oroville. State Office of Emergency Services Deputy Director Kelly Huston said the state "dodged a bullet" because the train was only carrying corn. Huston said each week a train carrying 1 million gallons of highly volatile crude oil from the Bakken oil field in Montana and North Dakota travels down the canyon, with plans to add a second train shortly. The crude oil goes to refineries in California.

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Posted 27 November 2014 - 09:50 AM

Chico (CA) Enterprise-Record, 11/26:

Train derailment amplifies concerns in canyon

 

BELDEN >> An 11-car train derailment that happened about 3 a.m. Tuesday in the Feather River Canyon wasn’t a particularly big deal, but a Plumas County official said it has to be seen as a reminder of what could happen if train cars loaded with something ugly went off the rails in the same general area.

 

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The rails were closed about 20 miles west of Quincy. The westbound UP train, hauling the corn from Nebraska to the Central Valley, derailed near Virgilia, upstream of Belden,

 

The tracks were reopened for rail traffic at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, and at the direction of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, Union Pacific has crews “vacuuming” the corn off the hillside, according to Hunt.

 

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Posted 30 November 2014 - 04:34 PM

Chico (CA) Enterprise-Record, 11/29:

Editorial: Train derailment in canyon a cautionary tale

 

When a train derailed in the Feather River Canyon above Belden on Tuesday and dropped tons of corn in the river, it was natural to chuckle uneasily that it was only corn.

 

Nobody was injured, no animals died, the river’s ecosystem will recover and Union Pacific, while on the hook for a difficult cleanup operation in a steep area, talked largely about how the company was fortunate — because it knows it could have been a whole lot worse.

 

What should be worrisome to the rest of us is that only Union Pacific seems to know how bad things could get — and Union Pacific isn’t sharing, apparently not even with government officials.

 

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