More than 20 train cars carrying new vehicles were upturned after a freight train derailed overnight in North Central Arizona, the Coconino County Emergency Management Department reported.
The agency said the wreck took place early Thursday east of Williams, a small city about 150 miles north of Phoenix. Williams is known as a gateway to Grand Canyon National Park via the Grand Canyon Railway, according to information from the city’s website.
A total of 23 wagons carrying a variety of new cars, vans and trucks derailed and sustained serious damage, the department said.
No one was injured and cleanup continued on Friday morning.
The cause of the wreck was not immediately known.
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Footage shows zig zag of upturned cars
Drone video from the scene shows three cars at the rear of the train lined up along tracks, bleeding into a zig zag of about a dozen wrecked cars with the letters BNSF written in red on the side of them.
Beyond the zig zag, aerial footage shows more than a dozen other cars are seen upturned along railroad tracks that lead into a split wooded area.
The wreck, video shows, lines what appears to be an industrial type area and shows people in hard hats and vests surveying the scene.
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