CSX Train Derails Near Big Blue River

Last updated on Thursday, July 7, 2011

(MORRISTOWN, IN) - A CSX Train derailed near the Big Blue River in Morristown Wednesday afternoon.

Bob Sullivan with CSX says preliminary reports indicate that nine cars on the train derailed and some of them went into the river.

Sullivan says a bridge over the river collapsed which caused the derailment.

The train was heading from Cincinnati to Indianapolis.

It has two locomotives and 94 cars. No injuries have been reported.

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