(The Associated Press circulated the following article on May 12.)
DENTON, Texas — Twenty-one cars on a Union Pacific freight train derailed in East Texas early Wednesday, damaging a bridge over a small creek and forcing rail traffic to be rerouted.
John Bromley, a spokesman for the Omaha, Neb.-based railroad, said there were no injuries and no hazardous material involved. Bromley said the 98-car train derailed just before the bridge. He said there was substantial damage to the bridge.
The train was traveling from Pine Bluff, Ark., to San Antonio when it derailed just east of Big Sandy.
The cars that derailed carried bricks, scrap paper, lime, plastics, corn, malt and steel.
Bromley had no estimated time for the line to reopen. He said trains were being detoured on alternate routes.
The cause of the crash was under investigation.