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Douglas Walker, dwalker@muncie.gannett.com
September 2, 2015PARKER CITY, INDIANA-
Randolph County officials were responding Wednesday afternoon to a 16-car train derailment that had closed one county road.
Sheriff Ken Hendrickson said Randolph County Road 1000-W, which runs directly east of Monroe Central Jr-Sr. High School, would be closed for several hours.
The sheriff said nine of the 16 cars -- which were empty coal cars -- were off the tracks and on their sides near the crossing. Seven other cars remained upright but were considered derailed, he said.
The derailed cars were at the end of a westbound locomotive, on the east-west tracks that run parallel to Ind. 32.
No injuries were reported. Traffic on county roads 900-W and 1100-W has been not impacted by the derailment, which was reported just after 3:30 p.m., the sheriff said.
Hendrickson said cranes would likely have to be brought to the scene to lift the overturned cars back onto the tracks.
The cause of the derailment was not immediately known, but foul play was not suspected, the sheriff said.