HARRISBURG, Pa. – A Norfolk Southern double-stack train derailed near Dillsburg, about 15 miles southwest of Harrisburg, on Thursday afternoon when it collided with a tractor-trailer rig carrying a reinforced concrete bridge beam.
According to local news reports, the 1:40 p.m. incident occurred when the truck, carrying a 131-foot, 73-ton bridge beam, was trying to reposition itself to cross the tracks at an S-curve crossing. The truck was en route to a bridge construction site near Gettysburg.
An NS crewman was treated at the scene for a minor injury. No one else was injured. The road remains closed on Friday, and railroad personnel and contractors are on site to clear the wreckage.
The train was westbound on the former Reading Lurgan Branch from Rutherford Yard, near Harrisburg, to Hagerstown, Md., and beyond. News photos show the ruined beam wrapped around the front of the lead locomotive, EMD SD70M-2 No. 2702.
