(The following report appeared on the Claremore Daily Progress website on January 13.)
ENID, Okla. — Farmrail freight train line officials spent Wednesday trying to determine what caused one of their trains to derail on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks that cross the 400 block of South Cleveland.
No injuries were reported.
“We don’t know yet what caused it,” said Rodney Roof, manager of business development at Farmrail in Clinton.
Police halted traffic along Cleveland for nearly 30 minutes, from 9:26 a.m. to 9:50 a.m., said Enid Police Department Capt. Jim Nivison.
Apparently, three cars carrying corn grain had derailed.
“They (Farmrail) got it out pretty quick,” Nivison said concerning railway crew efforts to move the cars.
The train was traveling south. Crews continued cleaning the grain spill into the afternoon, Roof said.