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 #1480467  by Dick H
 
From WCVB.com. Major CSX derailment under Cambridge Street Overpass in Worcester NA,

http://www.wcvb.com/article/train-derai ... s/22505625" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The location is approximately two miles west of Worcester Union Station.

The article below from MassLive.com indicates the train was traveling on Providence and Worchester tracks.

https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf ... worce.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1480487  by johnpbarlow
 
The derailment was on the P&W's Worcester-Plainfield/Groton line, which in my unscientific observations over the years, is an unusual place for double stacked containers to be located as ordinarily such containers use the Worcester-Valley Falls/Providence to go between CSX and Intransit Container off Blackstone River Rd. Apparently the Cambridge St over grade bridge isn't cleared for domestic double stacked containers as the MassDOT State Rail Plan doc indicates on page 39 (attached photo). Maybe a pair of domestic cube containers somehow was placed in the consist of what is normally international-sized (9' 6") containers? Or a pair of international containers wasn't seated correctly in a well car? OTOH, one of the articles indicated the CSX locomotive engineer was injured so perhaps the train derailed near the bridge causing a container to pop-up strikng the bridge?

https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/20 ... Comm_1.pdf
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