CSX Train Derailment - Bridge Collapse Morristown

As you may have seen from rtv6, wishtv, wthr, or fox 59 news, there was a huge train derailment which resulted in the collapse of the bridge crossing blue river just on the west edge of Morristown in shelby county. Conductor noticed a bend rail and applied the brakes and in doing so the cars rerailed from the tracks and caused the bridge to collapse. This is some footage that was captured by getting access thru all the road blocks that were set up by the local police and CSX personnel to try and contain and document this incident.

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• Train
• Derailment
• Morristown
• Shelby
• County

[rtheck]

Not sure what the other car containers were carrying beside the alcohol but you can hear gas of some kind leaking out

[ellisbud222]

@rtheck yeah... it's called water

[rtheck]

@ellisbud222 yeah im pretty sure water doesn't make a hissing sound. It was actually the pressure relief valve on the car containers carrying that alcohol substance

[ellisbud222]

@rtheck um...ok? can you say that again in redneck, even though I'm not a redneck, I just had no idea what you just said

[rtheck]

@ellisbud222 im actually not a redneck with either and you must not understand basic english if you didn't understand what I just said. The train cars that derailed were carrying and alcohol substance, not beer. Some sort of fuel for furnaces, so you obviously don't understand the whole story and probably never heard about it so why comment complete nonsense.

[chessie69]

The tank cars were empty and only had residual chemicals. There was no danger of explosion

[timpriddy73]

NTSB AND HAZMAT CREW

[foroke1]

So is this out in the middle of BFE or what?

[gibb1991]

How did you get back in there? I tried to get closer for some good photos, but they had everything quaranteened off and I could only get as close as the river bridge on SR 52.

[ellisbud222]

@rtheck well, you had 1 comment, made by yourself, I was only trying to help, and, I do know english, I was a honor student in my 7th grade year, and I'm in advanced English 10, which mean I'm a sophmore, just incase. so, yeah I'll shut now