Orlando Sentinel (Sunday)

No injuries reported after rail cars fall from Georgia overpass

- BYROMVILLE, Ga. — Rail cars tumbled from an overpass onto a Georgia highway on Saturday, causing an evacuation and traffic headaches in a small town but resulting in no injuries. CSX Railroad said 30 cars derailed. That included some that fell from the o

a deer stand more than a mile from town when it happened.

“You could hear the rail cars hitting each other — boom-boom-boomboom-boom,” Chapman said.

It happened around 7 a.m. Saturday in the town with a population of about 500.

CSX said four of the cars held petroleum liquefied gas. No leaks were reported.

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