DOOMS, Va. — Fifteen cars of a Norfolk Southern train — including seven carrying hydrochloric acid — derailed today (Monday, June 23) near the community of Dooms in Augusta County, Va., according to Virginia State Police.
The incident was reported to authorities about 1:57 p.m. with Augusta County Fire/EMS and the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office responding along with state police. No leaks of hazardous material were reported, according to the Staunton News Leader. No injuries were reported.
The derailment site is on the NS Roanoke District, just north of Waynesboro and about 100 miles north of Roanoke.
In a Tuesday, June 24, update, the news site Rocktown Now reports that the number of derailed cars has been increased to 16, with the number of those carrying hazardous materials revised to five. The only spill that occurred involved a car carrying non-hazardous plastic pellets, according to an NS spokeswoman.
— Updated June 24 at 6:05 p.m. CT with revised counts on derailed cars and those carrying hazardous materials.
Curious town name for a derailment: Dooms. Cheers.
Where did it say it was in Northern Virginia?
The original headline. Since corrected…
Are there any statistics on the percentage of derailed cars that have been repaired/rebuilt and returned to service vs needing to be scrapped? Are the contents of derailed cars sometimes unhurt and eventually delivered or are most written off? Presumably, the railroad is responsible to pay for destroyed or damaged cars and unusable cargoes.
This is a freight train with 96 cars…
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
Augusta County is hardly “Northern Virginia”! More like west-central VA. I suggest referring to a map in the future.