COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Norfolk Southern train that derailed Monday in Columbia struck an already derailed industrial switcher on a track adjacent to its main line, according to NS.
The newspaper The State reports it was told by NS spokesman Connor Spielmaker that the locomotive — a yellow end-cab switcher visible in some photos of the accident — had been operating on a parallel track but derailed and “encroached on the Norfolk Southern train’s right-of-way. … We’re still investigating what the [NS] train hit, but it was not another Norfolk Southern train.”
Three locomotives and three articulated container well cars derailed following the collision about 8:20 a.m. Two crew members were injured; no update on their condition was available. The accident also led to a fuel spill that was contained by authorities [see “Crew members injured …,” Trains News Wire, July 11, 2022]
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