After two days of
around-the-clock work, the Burlington Northern
Santa Fe rail line reopened this morning after a
derailment Sunday afternoon just past the Leonia
Bridge in Montana shut down traffic.
BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas
said the cause of Sunday's derailment, which
spilled about 20-tons of Montana wheat bound for
Kalama, Washington, remains under investigation,
and work continues on site clean up. Trucks have
been brought in, Melonas said, to vacuum up the
spilled grain, and crews are working to remove
22 rail cars destroyed in the mishap, which will
take several weeks.
Trains began moving west on
the rail line early this morning, and by this
afternoon, several eastbound trains that had
been parked along the rail in and around Bonners
Ferry were able to get underway.
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