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JAY — Eleven railroad cars derailed Thursday morning at the intersection of Crash Road, Jay police officer Mike Mejia said.
Mejia was rerouting traffic around the site, sending vehicles either straight through Riley Road by the paper mill or turning vehicles around.
State police were detouring traffic from the Livermore side, Jay police Chief Larry White said.
A Pan Am Railways representative called White to inform him of the situation and that the road would have to be shut down until sometime Friday.
Railroad tracks appeared to be broken off and ripped up, some were warped while a few railroad cars had their wheels deep in sand. Asphalt on Crash Road was also torn up.
It wasn’t clear which way the train was going, and company officials did not return a call.
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The railroad spur runs to the paper mills in Jay and Rumford.
The end or the beginning of the train was seen not too far from the Crash Road crossing.
By late afternoon Pan Am representatives had moved the train engine away from the derailment, and workers had already removed one of the train cars blocking Crash Road.
However, another car was still blocking most of the road where a piece of rail was on the ground disconnected from the track.
No one was injured, and no train cars tipped over.
A Federal Railroad Administration representative was checking to see if the derailment was reportable. There is a certain threshold of damage that needs to occur before an incident is required to be reported to the federal government.
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It was the second time in 16 months that a Pan Am Railways train has derailed in the area.
Five cars derailed in January 2009, two of them flipping onto their sides and two others leaning, while another one went off the track about 200 yards from Thursday’s derailment.
Some of the damage is shown after several cars on a Pan Am Railways train derailed Thursday morning at the intersection of Crash Road in Jay. Eleven cars on the Pan Am Railways train derailed, Jay police officer Mike Mejia said. It is about 200 yards from where five cars on a Pan Am train derailed in January 2009. The cause of that derailment was a broken rail.
Jay police officer Mike Mejia directs traffic around a train derailment on Crash Road on Thursday morning after several cars on Pan Am Railways train derailed at the Crash Road intersection. Eleven train cars derailed, Mejia said. It happened about 200 yards from where five cars on a Pan Am train derailed, with two of them tipping over, in January 2009. The cause of that derailment was a broken rail.
Some of the damage is seen here Thursday morning after several cars on a Pan Am Railways train derailed at the intersection of Crash Road in Jay. Vehicles were being detoured around the site by Jay and State Police. Crash Road in that area is expected to be shut down until at least Friday afternoon. Eleven cars on the Pan Am Railways train derailed about 200 yards from where five cars on a Pan Am train derailed in January 2009. The cause of that derailment was a broken rail.
Damage to some of the railroad tracks are seen here Thursday morning after after several railroad cars on a Pan Am Railways train derailed or partially derailed at the intersection of Crash Road in Jay. Vehicles were being detoured around the site by Jay and State police. Crash Road in that area is expected to be shut down until at least Friday afternoon. Eleven train cars on the Pan Am Railways train either derailed or partially derailed about 200 yards from where five cars on a Pan Am train derailed in January 2009. The cause of that derailment was a broken rail.
One of several railroad cars on a Pan Am Railways train derailed or partially derailed Thursday morning at the intersection of Crash Road in Jay. The derailment happened about 200 yards from where five cars on a Pan Am train derailed in January 2009. The cause of that derailment was a broken rail.
A representative of Pan Am Railways, who declined to give his name, makes a report after several railroad cars either derailed or partially derailed Thursday morning at the intersection of Crash Road in Jay.
Several train cars on a Pan Am Railways train derailed on Thursday morning at the intersection of Crash Road in Jay. The road in that area is expected to be closed down until late Friday. Eleven cars derailed, Jay police officer Mike Mejia said. It happened about 200 yards from where five cars on a Pan Am train derailed in January 2009. The cause of that derailment was a broken rail and cars did tip over. No train cars rolled over Thursday.
A Pan Am Railways representative, who declined to give his name, arrived nearly an hour after a derailment was reported Thursday morning at the Crash Road intersection in Jay. Some of the damage is seen here. Vehicles were being detoured around the site by Jay and State police. Crash Road in that area is expected to be shut down until at least Friday afternoon. Eleven cars on the Pan Am Railways train derailed, Jay police officer Mike Mejia said. It happened about 200 yards from where five cars on a Pan Am train detrailed in January 2009. The cause of that derailment was a broken rail.
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