Evacuation order lifted in Whitemarsh Township after trail derailment
A 40-car CSX freight train derailed near Stenton Avenue and Joshua Road, police said.
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A 40-car CSX freight train derailed near Stenton Avenue and Joshua Road, police said.
Homes were evacuated for precautionary reasons in Whitemarsh Township early Monday morning after a 40-car CSX freight train derailed near Stenton Avenue and Joshua Road, police said.
BNSF said in a statement that 22 cars derailed with four catching fire, but that no injuries were reported due to the accident.
CSX officials today told a City Council committee that despite a January freight train derailment on a bridge over the Schuylkill River, the aging bridge itself is safe.
Seven cars on a CSX freight train from Chicago to Philadelphia derailed early Monday morning in the area of the South Street Bridge, prompting a shutdown of a stretch of the Schuylkill Expressway.
Officials in Delaware are investigating what caused a freight train carrying stones to derail in Sussex County Sunday morning.
Conrail employees told the NTSB they did everything by the book that day. A vinyl chloride leak forced evacuation of half the town.
Officials announced Sunday that the final car containing vinyl chloride has been successfully removed from scene of a train derailment in Paulsboro, New Jersey.
Two weeks after the Conrail freight train accident and chemical spill in Paulsboro the Coast Guard reports significant progress in cleaning things up.
Federal investigators have completed the on-site portion of their inquiry into a New Jersey train derailment that released a hazardous chemical, forcing evacuations that remain in place.
More than 100 southern New Jersey residents will be kept out of their homes for several more days as crews work to clear a hazardous gas that spewed from a ruptured freight train car.
A signal may have malfunctioned on a southern New Jersey bridge where a train derailed, causing a hazardous chemical to spew into the air and leading to health problems, an evacuation, tricky cleanup decisions and broader questions about the condition of railway infrastructure.
The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into a bridge collapse that caused a huge freight train to derail Friday morning.
The investigation is underway into a freight train derailment and chemical leak Friday in Paulsboro that sent dozens to the hospital.
A division of the Department of Transportation, the Federal Railroad Administration, usually just oversees how companies do rail bridge inspections.
The derailed cars were carrying a chemical called vinyl chloride, which spilled into Mantua Creek.
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Two people, including an off-duty Philly police officer, were injured in a small plane crash in Northeast Philadelphia Wednesday, sources said.
North Wildwood declared an emergency about three weeks ago after a series of winter storms stripped away several feet of sand.
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Wednesday will feature likely record-breaking high temperatures in the Philadelphia region. The NEXT Weather team is also tracking the potential for thunderstorms.
SEPTA said it has bought 24 used Bombardier Comets railcars from the Montreal public transportation system, Exo.
SEPTA said it has bought 24 used Bombardier Comets railcars from the Montreal public transportation system, Exo.
Two people, including an off-duty Philly police officer, were injured in a small plane crash in Northeast Philadelphia Wednesday, sources said.
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