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June 22, 2006
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Train Derails in Clare County
The Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway train hauling water once used for cooling nuclear materials at Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant derailed shortly after 1 a.m. Friday, officials said. Nobody was injured in the derailment, police said. Also carrying casting sand headed for a foundry in Cleveland, the train derailed behind Renosol on tracks between Old State Avenue and Maple Grove Road in Surrey Township, Clare County Sheriff's Sgt. Bill Larson said. Larson, who is director of Clare County Central Dispatch and emergency management, said that no hazardous materials being hauled on the train spilled and that there was no fuel spilled because the locomotive engines did not derail. The cars carrying the hazardous materials also remained upright, Larson said. "We got real lucky on it," he said. Jim Dunn, the railroad's director of operations, said the water being hauled is not dangerous, the Associated Press reported Friday afternoon. Approximately 17 of the 38 train cars were involved; those cars were either carrying casting sand or were empty coal cars, Larson said. Workers from the railroad were on hand throughout the day with bulldozers and heavy equipment, clearing wreckage from the area. An investigation into what caused the derailment would likely begin after the train cars were removed from the tracks, Larson said. Workers estimated that they would have the rail bed cleared by 9 p.m. Friday, but the tracks in the area of the derailment are not expected to be repaired until next week, Larson said.
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