By Robert Kennedy
Mar 5, 2021 3:45 AM
WEYAUWEGA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – March 4, 2021 marked the 25th anniversary of a train derailment in Waupaca County.
The train derailment happened on March 4, 1996 in Weyauwega. The train was carrying tanker cars filled with propane, and the danger of explosions forced the evacuations of nearly 2,000 people from their homes for close to three weeks.
25 years later, Judy Weisman who was Weyauwegaâs Mayor at the time still remembers that day.
âWe lived on 2nd Avenue just a couple blocks over there,â said Whisman during a commemoration gathering,” said Weisman.
25 years earlier, she recalled the story in a similar way, in an interview with Fox 11 from 1996.
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