The images showed sunny skies and it appeared the accident occurred along a straight section of tracks.Īmtrak said that because of the derailment, the Sunday westbound Empire Builder will terminate in Minneapolis, and the Sunday eastbound Empire Builder train will originate in Minneapolis. Passengers were standing alongside the tracks, some carrying luggage. Photos posted to social media showed several cars on their sides. The National Transportation Safety Board will send a 14-member team, including investigators and specialists in railroad signals and other disciplines, to investigate the crash, its spokesman Eric Weiss said. Speaking from the Liberty County Senior Centre, where passengers were being taken, Ms Vandervest said it felt like “extreme turbulence on a plane.”Īmtrak was working with the local authorities to transport injured passengers and safely evacuate all other passengers, Mr Abrams said. She told the newspaper that the car behind hers was tilted over, the one behind that was entirely tipped over, and the three cars behind that “had completely fallen off the tracks and were detached from the train”. “My first thought was that we were derailing because, to be honest, I have anxiety and I had heard stories about trains derailing,” said Ms Vandervest, who is from Minneapolis. Megan Vandervest, a passenger on the train who was going to visit a friend in Seattle, told the New York Times that she was awakened by the derailment.
The train consisted of two locomotives and 10 cars, with seven of those cars derailing, he added. The train had about 146 passengers and 16 crew members onboard, Mr Abrams said. Ever been to any of these places, what was your favoriteRest of the Playlist. The accident scene is about 150 miles north of Helena and about 30 miles from the border with Canada. UPDATE: Statement on Empire Builder derailment near Joplin, MT including service and hotline information: - Amtrak Alerts September 26, 2021
The Empire Builder train derailed about 4pm (11pm Irish time) on Saturday near Joplin, a town of about 200 people, Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said in a statement.
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