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News Photo: No one injured in CSX derailment caused by rock slide

By Sammi DiVito | December 17, 2020

| Last updated on December 18, 2020

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Wreckage of a train derailment
No one was injured in this CSX derailment caused by a rockslide in Harlan County, Ky.

No injuries resulted when a CSX coal train derailed after striking a rockslide in the Harlan County community Wallins Creek, Ky. Two locomotives and eight cars derailed. WYMT-TV quotes CSX spokeswoman Cindy Schild as saying the derailment occurred about 2:09 a.m., and no leaks or spills into waterways occurred. A state transportation department spokesman said the adjacent State Route 2007 is expected to be closed for nearly a month as the rockslide is cleared. No word if anyone was in the house that was narrowly missed by the derailment.

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