MAY 19, 2015
GREAT FALLS, MONTANA
Emergency crews responded to the derailment of a rail care
in Great Falls, Montana on Tuesday afternoon.
It happened at about 5:30 p.m. on the east side of town south of Giant Springs State Park.
Initial reports indicate that up to 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel may have spilled from a tanker rail car.
There have been no injuries.
There is no word yet on the cause of the incident.
Matt Jones, a spokesman for BNSF, tells MTN News that the derailment is being investigated.
Jones says that a fuel tank on the locomotive was ruptured in the accident.
BNSF hazmat workers are on their way from around the state to assist with the clean-up.
Workers at the scene were trying to catch leaking fuel in a barrel but a large pool of liquid could be seen on the ground near the engine.
It happened at about 5:30 p.m. on the east side of town south of Giant Springs State Park.
Initial reports indicate that up to 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel may have spilled from a tanker rail car.
There have been no injuries.
There is no word yet on the cause of the incident.
Matt Jones, a spokesman for BNSF, tells MTN News that the derailment is being investigated.
Jones says that a fuel tank on the locomotive was ruptured in the accident.
BNSF hazmat workers are on their way from around the state to assist with the clean-up.
Workers at the scene were trying to catch leaking fuel in a barrel but a large pool of liquid could be seen on the ground near the engine.
I guess war and buffet’s BNSF trains have hard time stay on
their tracks. Slow speed, fast speed, it does not matter, they still derail. They must be drunk from
the massive profits war and buffet makes.