Freight train derails in downtown Portland near west end of Steel Bridge, all rail traffic through a
All rail traffic along the major rail line that runs past Portland’s Union Station has been halted after a freight train derailed near the west end of the Steel Bridge early Saturday afternoon, a Union Pacific Railroad official said.
No one was injured, Portland Fire & Rescue officials said. The train was transporting grain, they said.
The train remained upright, but a locomotive and two cargo cars derailed, Union Pacific’s senior manager of communications, Mike Jaixen, told The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Railroad officials are on site determining what must be done to repair the damage to the rails, Jaixen said. “All train traffic in the area is held up while we’re investigating what occurred and what it’s going to take to get the tracks open up again.”
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