(The Associated Press circulated the following article on July 17.)
BISMARCK, N.D. — Crews are cleaning up after a freight train hauling soybeans derailed near the central North Dakota town of McKenzie.
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe train was traveling from Breckenridge, Minnesota, to Seattle when 20 cars derailed yesterday afternoon about 20 miles east of Bismarck.
A BNSF spokesman says the cause of the derailment isn’t known yet.
Three locomotives were pulling the 110-car train when the cars jumped the single-line tracks.
Trains were re-routed as railroad crews worked overnight to remove the derailed cars and spilled soybeans so the tracks could be repaired.
The tracks should reopen by this evening.