Train derailment, explosions probed
From Times Wire Reports
Federal investigators arrived at the smoldering scene where two dozen ethanol tanker cars derailed and several exploded on a southwestern Pennsylvania bridge.
No one was injured when 24 cars from the train’s midsection derailed late Friday and nine caught fire on the half-mile-long rail bridge over the Beaver River in New Brighton, about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
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