HEREFORD, Texas — Seventeen cars of a BNSF Railway intermodal train derailed early Wednesday morning on the railroad’s Southern Transcon near the town of Hereford, the Amarillo Globe-News reports.
The derailment occurred about 5 a.m. on the Hereford Subdivision, between the towns of Dawn and Hereford, about 45 miles southwest of Amarillo. No injuries were reported. The railroad told the newspaper the cause was under investigation.
BNSF said in a report to customers that it reopened one of the two main tracks at the accident scene at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, with the second main reopened today (Thursday, Aug. 18) at 11 a.m.
The accident comes two weeks after another intermodal derailment closed the Southern Transcon at East Galesburg, Ill. [see “BNSF train derails …,” Trains News Wire, Aug. 3, 2022].
— Updated Friday, Aug. 19, at 7:05 a.m. with information on line’s reopening
Down goes another one…..