ROCHESTER, Minn. — Repairs were completed this week on a half-mile stretch of Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad track in Rochester, the Post-Bulletin reported.
The repaired area was damaged on April 19, when seven cars belonging to a DM&E train went off the tracks near the Olmsted County waste incinerator. No one was injured in the derailment.
Lynn Anderson, DM&E vice president, said the repair work entailed placing new wooden ties, adding ballast and smoothing the track.
“This is not a replacement of track, just a completion of repairs to get the track back in its original shape,” he said.
Anderson said the April derailment happened when a wheel from a car went off the track at a low spot between two sections of track in southeast Rochester.
He said the repairs made the track “at least as good as the conditions were before the derailment.”