Three train cars and a locomotive derailed at about 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, leading to a 50-70-gallon fuel spill, authorities say.<\/p>\n
Three of the train cars were off the track at a 30-degree angle, and the locomotive also left the tracks, according to Lackawanna County Emergency Management Agency Director Tom Taylor.<\/p>\n
The fuel leaked from the locomotive, which contained 2,500 of diesel fuel, although only a part of that is believed to have spilled.<\/p>\n
Crews rushed to the incident, which happened behind ID Logistics in the Stauffer Industrial Park on Continental Street, Taylor said.<\/p>\n
The Scranton Fire Department brought the leak under control using putty and special pools placed underneath the area of the leak, he said.<\/p>\n
The state Departmental of Environmental Protection had a crew on its way to the site, according to spokesperson Patti Monahan.<\/p>\n
The rail line is part of the Reading & Northern Railroad, which is in charge of repairs, Scranton Fire Chief John Judge said.<\/p>\n
He noted it will take the railway a bit of time to repair the train and open up that section of rail.<\/p>\n
As of 4 p.m., the Fire Department remained at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three train cars and a locomotive derailed at about 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, leading to a 50-70-gallon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-129685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}