(The following story by Matt Suoja appeared on the Lake County News Chronicle website on September 30, 2010.)
BRIMSON, Minn. — Canadian National Railway has confirmed that a crash involving two trains occurred today north of Two Harbors on a CN track in Brimson.
The crash occurred about 4 p.m., according to witnesses at the scene at Boomers Road Railroad Crossing on Highway 2 about 15 miles north of Two Harbors. The witnesses showed photographs of train cars piled on one another and next to the tracks.
Life Flight was seen at the Two Harbors Fire Department after the crash to aid victims. There were five individuals involved in the accident.
CN spokesman Patrick Waldron said there have been no reported fatalities from the crash. Three of the injured people were in one train and two were in the other, Waldron said.
The three locomotives on the inbound and outbound trains were all derailed but were up right. Fifteen loaded ore cars were also derailed as well as two empty cars.
There were 116 cars on each train.
Waldron would not go into specifics on what caused the accident and said the length of the investigation “depends on the circumstances.”