A train derailment in Rossville held up traffic Tuesday and Wednesday, but residents say it mostly went unnoticed in the maze of railroad tracks and industrial buildings in the town.
“I knew those train cars weren’t supposed to be looking like that, but it only blocked one road and I don’t go down there anyways,” Norma Hollingsworth said Wednesday while standing outside a dry cleaning business on Gordon Street.
She was just a few feet from where three Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway Co. cars derailed Tuesday afternoon, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.
The 13-car train was on its way from Chattanooga to Chickamauga, Ga., hauling carpet components, said Randall Magnussen, the railroad’s general manager. Just two of the cars left the tracks and toppled over, he said.
“We’re going to pump those empty so they are easier to lift,” Mr. Magnussen said.