(The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette posted the following article on its website on August 4.)
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Crews might need a week to clean up the debris from a train that derailed just west of Payne, Ohio, near the Indiana state line, an emergency official said Tuesday.
About 28 of 140 Norfolk Southern rail cars tumbled off the tracks and into a field Monday afternoon.
No one was injured.
Two of the cars were carrying hazardous materials, but none of the cargo spilled, said Randy Shaffer, Paulding County’s emergency management director.
The other rail cars that derailed were carrying rolls of paper, plastic pellets, wheat and soybeans, Shaffer said. Cars at the front and back of the train remained on the tracks.
“We’ve got grain and little plastic pellets all over the place,” he said.
The track reopened to traffic Tuesday afternoon. About 30 trains travel each day on the rail line between Fort Wayne and Ohio.
Authorities and Norfolk Southern are investigating the cause.