(The following Associated Press article was published in the January 21 online issue of the Canton Repository.)
ROCKY RIDGE, Ohio — Railroad workers Monday examined 29 freight cars that jumped the tracks a day earlier, spilling grain onto the snow-covered ground.
The cars on the Norfolk Southern train derailed at 6:45 p.m. Sunday when a car carrying scrap metal lost a wheel, said Bud Chasteen, police chief in this town.
That car, plus others carrying grain and zinc oxide, derailed, Chasteen said. He said most of the grain spilled and only a small amount of the zinc oxide.
Two people on the train, the engineer and conductor, were not hurt, he said.
The 109-car train was traveling from Chicago to Pittsburgh when the accident happened, said Rudy Husband, a spokesman for Norfolk Southern.