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(Source: Knoxville News Sentinel, November 2, 2017)

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The sudden failure of a wheel bearing appears to have triggered the disastrous July 2015 freight train derailment that forced the evacuation of 5,000 Blount County residents, according to federal investigators.

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