NORA, Ill. — Residents of the village of Nora were to be allowed to return to their homes at 6 a.m. today (Friday, Oct. 10) following a Thursday morning derailment of a Canadian National Railway train that led to the evacuation of about 100 people.
The Warren, Ill., Fire Department posted that information, from the Carroll County Emergency Management Agency, in an update late Thursday on its Facebook page. That message accompanied video of cleanup work in progress after the derailment of 17 cars of a 82-car CN train carrying ethanol shortly after midnight on Thursday morning [see “Illinois village evacuated …,” Trains.com, Oct. 9, 2025]. An undetermined amount of ethanol leaked from two cars following the derailment, but CN said in a Thursday afternoon statement that those leaks had been patched.
Nora, on CN’s Dubuque Subdivision, is approximately 4 miles southeast of Warren, 4 miles south of the Wisconsin state line, and 20 miles east of Galena, Ill.
