Cleanup resumes after northwest Indiana train derailment
GARY, Ind. -- Crews resumed cleanup work Thursday in northwest Indiana, a day after a freight train derailment sent 20 rail cars flying off the tracks along a highway, officials said.
No injuries were reported following Wednesday's partial derailment in Gary, which left train wheels strewn along the tracks with cars tipped over and smashed, The (Northwest Indiana) Times reported.
Norfolk Southern spokesman Jeff DeGraff said 20 cars came off the tracks about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday when the eastbound train with two locomotives hauling 132 rail cars derailed.
The train had departed from Chicago and was en route to Elkhart when it derailed along U.S. 12, he said.