(Newsday.com posted the following Associated Press article on January 27.)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The state attorney general’s office will not pursue criminal charges against CSX Corp. for a 2001 train derailment that ignited a fireball in a residential neighborhood.
The state closed its investigation last month after determining there was not enough evidence to support criminal charges, Marc Violette, a spokesman for the attorney general, told the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester.
The 43-car CSX Corp. train, carrying chemicals used by Eastman Kodak Co., jumped the rails in the residential Charlotte neighborhood next to Lake Ontario Dec. 23, 2001. Two 20,000-gallon tanks of acetone and methylene chloride used in making photographic film ruptured and ignited a fire that heavily damaged two houses and several boats at a marina.