nbcwashington.com: A freight train crossing the Potomac River Harpers Ferry, West Virginia derailed while passing a bridge, causing seven carriages to fall into the water, destroying a section of a footbridge that is part of the famous Appalachian Trail.
It seems that at the time of the crash there was no one on the bridge and no one was hurt:
The train headed east across the railroad bridge between Harpers Ferry and Maryland.
The incident took place around 2:30 am, CSX said. According to CSX, the empty cars derailed into the water, but the locomotive remained on the bridge.
Maryland State Police, Washington County Firefighters, Loudoun County Firefighters, National Park Service, and other agencies responded to the incident at around 3:30 am.
CSX says there were no hazardous materials on board and the company will work to quickly clean up and rehabilitate the area. The cause of the crash is being investigated.
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Removing the wagons from the Potomac is expected to be a lengthy process.
Editorial comment
CSX, which reports, is a Class I private railway owned by the CSX Corporation. The US railroad class is slightly different from the train ticket class. A first class road is just a road with over $ 250 million in annual revenue, and CSX has a lot of those millions:
The bridge that collapsed is called the Winchester and Potomac Railroad Bridge, that is, the Winchester-Potomac Railroad Bridge:
The name of the bridge is of great importance, because it is very old, just a monument, and all the monuments are written on Wikipedia. And as it turned out - this bridge is almost 200 years old and there were still battles for it during the Civil War. And this fact already presupposes some conclusions.
First, you need to take off your hats to the engineers of the 19th century - they had a tradition to personally stand in front of the bridge they built. Therefore, the structure stood for two hundred years and withstood all the hardships, even a train falling into the river. There is great doubt that in 200, at least the foundation will remain from modern remakes.
Secondly, this is what we have already said many times: the infrastructure in the world is aging, and the globalists are either lazy or there is no need to restore it, since their masters do not plan the further development of the current civilization. And, as we see, the bridges are slowly flying. In this case, apparently, only the rails have rotted, but there are a lot of bridges from the Civil War in the United States and they still have everything ahead.
Thirdly, the bridge, as noted above, is a monument of the Civil War era. Well, since something similar is planned in the USA again, a train wreck may be a kind of ritual. However, the Americans should unsubscribe on this score, since we have never deeply delved into the story of who stepped on where and on whom in the war between the North and South, as it was unnecessary. Therefore, we are waiting for what the Americans will say on the topic, that is, we are following, as always, the development of events.