Three people have been injured after an empty coal train operated by CSX Corp. derailed on March 8 after hitting a rock slide in a remote area of West Virginia.
All four of the train’s locomotives and nine empty coal cars derailed in a remote area just south of Sandstone, Summers County, inside the New River National Park and Preserve, CSX said in a statement. The incident happened just before 5 a.m. local time.
The lead locomotive was carrying three crew members—a conductor, an engineer, and an engineer trainee—and caught fire after striking the rock slide and derailing, CSX said….