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Train Derails Near Chicago
Reporter: AP
NORTHBROOK, Ill. (AP) - A Union Pacific spokesman says a freight
train has derailed and a bridge over a stretch of road has
collapsed in the northern Chicago suburbs.
Mark Davis says 27 cars of a 138-car freight train derailed
about 1:45 p.m. Wednesday. He says the three-engine train was
carrying coal from an eastern Wyoming mine to a utility in
Wisconsin. Davis says the bridge was 86 feet long.
Glenview police responded to the scene near the borders of
Glenview and Northbrook but did not immediately provide any
information.
Davis says no injuries were reported. He says some dry
vegetation in the area caught fire.
Davis says the incident happened on a rail line not used by
Chicago commuter services.
Union Pacific is investigating the cause of the derailment.
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