Sent in by web reporter Denneth Lee and friends in NH.
Attached quotes and stories. I am not sure when this happened:
Ethanol pics - OH wreck on NS
...Have not heard final results but all initial talk from those in the know is that it most likely was caused by a Broken Rail
It is a good thing there was no one around. There was a farm supply place 150 yards from the main track. There is one picture that shows it. What you are looking at used to be brand new hay wagons all lined up in the row. After the bleve, it reminds me of Hiroshima . It is a good thing this happened at 0220, in a rural area of Ohio . If this had happened near a city it would have been a catastrophy. It is just starting to calm down now.
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ARCADIA — About 25 rail tanker cars loaded with ethanol burned after a freight train derailed this morning less than two miles west of Arcadia.
No one has been hurt, authorities said.
About 20 families evacuated their homes up to 1.5 miles from the Norfolk Southern tracks near the intersection of Hancock County 216 and Cass Township 247. Arcadia is about seven miles northeast of Findlay..."
"...The derailment and fire were reported at about 2:15 a.m. and witnesses said a “big ball of fire” lit up the sky briefly at about 3:20 a.m..."
About six tanker cars filled with ethanol were still connected to the burning tankers this morning and one was engulfed in flames, said Jim Breyman, spokesman for the Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department.
