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Walnut Street crossing still closed after train derailment

CSX workers install a new crossing signal and gate at the Walnut Street crossing on Thursday, March 4, after a train derailment there on Wednesday destroyed the previous signal.

Staff photo by Nick Daggy CSX workers install a new crossing signal and gate at the Walnut Street crossing on Thursday, March 4, after a train derailment there on Wednesday destroyed the previous signal.

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Staff Report Updated 9:55 AM Friday, March 5, 2010

HAMILTON — The railroad crossing at Walnut Street will remain closed today, March 5, two days after of a southbound CSX train derailed downtown.

CSX employees who were working at the scene Thursday declined to comment on when the crossing would reopen, but Hamilton police said Walnut Street will be closed indefinitely.

Police said they did not know what work was still being performed at the intersection, but predict it will remain closed for at least another day or two as it is not a heavily-trafficked crossing.

Cars traveling on Martin Luther King Boulevard attempting to turn left onto Walnut Street were stopped by at least two white road closure signs preventing vehicles from reaching the railroad tracks.

Dispatchers received a call at 8:25 a.m. Wednesday that four cars went off the tracks in the 500 block of Walnut, police said.

The 120-car train pulled by three engines blocked crossings from 8:30 a.m. to about 3 p.m. Wednesday.

The train spanned 6,500 feet, extending from the Hanover Street crossing and over the Great Miami River to the D Street overpass on the city’s West Side.

The cars that derailed were not carrying hazardous material and may have been empty, said Bob Sullivan, spokesman for CSX Railroad.

There were no injuries, and the cause of the incident remains under investigation, he said.

Trains were traveling along the tracks throughout the day Thursday, though debris remains scattered along the tracks and on Walnut Street where the train derailed.

Wednesday’s incident is the city’s third derailment in the past 2½ years.

On Dec. 3, 2009, a U.S. Rail locomotive and boxcar, working under contract with SMART Papers, went off the tracks near Gordon Avenue.

In July 2007, three cars on a CSX train overturned, dumping tons of soybean grain onto a grassy bank beside Ohio 4.

There were no injuries in the two previous incidents.

No word yet on when site of derailment will reopen

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