(The following appeared on the Daily Inter Lake website on March 11, 2011.)
KALISPELL, Mont. — Cleanup of a train derailment in the Middle Fork Flathead River corridor progressed Thursday, with BNSF Railway projecting the line would be reopened by this morning.
By Thursday afternoon, 10 of 19 cars that derailed Wednesday about 4 miles west of Essex had been re-railed; the remaining cars will be scrapped and hauled away, according to BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas.
The derailed cars were carrying two large farm tractors, plastics, particle board and grains. Two cars were loaded with frozen turkeys and chickens that must be removed by dump trucks, Melonas said.
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