Residences along a Norfolk Southern rail line in Whitemarsh Township outside Philadelphia were ordered to evacuate as a precautionary measure after 16 CSX freight train cars — one of them carrying a hazardous chemical — derailed early Monday morning. Thankfully in this case, it seems nothing aside from plastic beads spilled out of the wreck, and nobody was injured.
The derailment occurred shortly before 5 a.m. local time, and the train in question had been towing 40 cars. Of the cars that went off, one contained tetrachloroethylene, a degreaser used in dry cleaning identified by the EPA as a likely carcinogen; five were carrying the liquid fertilizer urea; and one had silicone pellets, per FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS
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