(The Associated Press circulated the following article on July 4.)
ALEXANDRIA, La. — A Union Pacific freight train derailed early Sunday and one tanker car spilled motor oil, the company said.
No one was injured when two locomotives and nine cars derailed about 12:30 a.m., Union Pacific spokesman John Bromley said. The car hauling motor oil was on its side and environmental crews had the spill contained by afternoon, he said.
Three of the other nine cars were on their sides, the rest remained upright but partly off the tracks. They contained plastic pellets and paper. One car carrying sulfuric acid derailed but did not tip over and was not breached, Bromley said.
The 100-car train was en route from Livonia to Fort Worth, Texas, when it came off the tracks in north Alexandria.
City police and a state police hazardous materials crew was at the scene, authorities said.