'We Heard This Loud Crash' An Eyewitness Said Of Friday's Train Derailment
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- A CSX train derailed in the 1900 block of Falls Road near the Streetcar Museum in Baltimore. The call came in around 3 p.m Friday.
CSX Train Derails In Baltimore; Cars Hanging From Bridge
At least three cars were hanging off the tracks. A total of nine cars were derailed. The cars were empty.
A member of the Streetcar Museum, Russell, said that there was damage to the cars.
"From what I can see the roof is smashed in," he said. "The walls are blown out and it also looks to me like a couple of line poles are out."
Line poles hold up trolley wire.
There were no injuries reported in the train derailment, but some locals were concerned about the potential environmental impacts.
"I'm terrified what that cargo maybe in that baltimore train derailment," one person said in a tweet Friday.
Officials said there was nothing in the cars.
Baltimore City Councilman, Ryan Dorsey, also took to Twitter following the train derailment.
"Update: Not a collapse. Train derailed," Dorsey said.
Another eyewitness said that the train appeared to be moving slowly along the tracks before it derailed.
"The train was moving all nice and slow," she said. "The train had just fell on over. That's the only thing that happened. It wasn't excessive speed or nothing like that. It just fell over."
A MICA student said she was talking with a teacher when the derailment occurred.
"I was talking to my teacher about my exhibition, and we heard this loud crash," she said. "We didn't really know what it was. We thought it was a track right by our school, but we heard it and were like, 'What was that?'"
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