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In Bedford County officials
are working to figure out what
caused nine railcars to come
off their tracks and Hyndman on
Friday.
This comes less than six months
after a much bigger derailment
in that tiny town.
A derailment in Hyndman a
familiar phrase for people there.
32 Cars flew off the tracks
catching fire for more than two
days.
That forced the entire small
town of Hyndman to evacuate and
kept people from their homes
for days if not weeks.
This derailment is less serious
but more concerning for
officials.
Dave Cubbison says people need
to be ready for crashes and
accidents.
"I have to tell people along
any transportation corridor
expect that there will be
issues in any place you have
movement especially high volume
movement of goods and
services."
Plus as many first responders and
reporters remember from the last
incident is this,
"the fact that there is no
cellular broadband services in
in the Londonderry Twp. or hyndman
Borough area."
This derailment was much
different.
It was smaller.
The safety features on the railcars
worked properly while absorbing
the blow of the crash.
"This is the best case scenario with
this type of a call, none of the
tanker cars have ruptured, they all did
what they were supposed to do."
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