THOMPSONVILLE, Ill. — Nineteen cars of a Canadian National coal train derailed Friday near Thompsonville in Southern Illinois, WPSD-TV reports. No injuries were reported.
Brian Burgess, director of the Williamson County Emergency Management Agency, told the station that the derailment occurred in a remote area of the county. “It’s just a slip off the track with some coal spillage. Nothing major,” he said.
Crawford Road is closed at the derailment site, officials said.
The derailment is on CN’s Bluford Subdivision, about 60 miles north of the Illinois-Kentucky state line at Metropolis, Ill. It also about 35 miles east of Carbondale, Ill.
