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Montana Derailment Sends at Least 7 Freight Cars Into the Yellowstone River [1]

['Eduardo Medina']

Date: 2023-06-24

At least seven cars from a freight train tumbled into the Yellowstone River in Montana on Saturday after a derailment and a bridge collapse, causing asphalt and molten sulfur cargo to spill into the water, the authorities said.

Officials were investigating whether the derailment or the bridge collapse happened first, as well as how much of the cargo had spread into the river. What led up to the derailment was not immediately known, officials said.

The train cars, operated by Montana Rail Link, derailed around 6:45 a.m. local time as they headed west in Stillwater County, the county’s Disaster and Emergency Services Department said on Facebook.

Andy Garland, a Montana Rail Link spokesman, said no one was injured. Mr. Garland said that two cars were carrying sodium hydro sulfate, but neither had entered the water or been breached.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/us/montana-train-derailment-yellowstone.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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