A 36-CAR CSX RAILROAD TRAIN WAS TRAVELING NORTH Saturday morning from Kentucky through Cincinnati when several area 9-1-1 centers began getting calls reporting one of the rail cars burning.
Neither the engineer nor the conductor had noticed the freight car full ablaze as they traveled along at speed, fanning the flames as they went. The train that was carrying new automobiles was finally stopped shortly before 8 am near Carlisle, Ohio, where six fire departments were able to converge on it with tankers, and begin atttacking the fire.
WHIO-TV
The fire was difficult to put out because the train car was metal and the intense heat had warped the doors, the Carlisle fire chief told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “We literally had to cut the sides off this train. The car was just like a giant oven.”
It took about one hour to put out the fire that destoyed several mini-vans. It did not extend to any other railcars and there is no determination yet on what started it.
WHIO-TV has a video report HERE.
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