NEW KENT COUNTY, Va. — New photos show crews are making progress cleaning up and restoring the rail line damaged when a CSX freight train derailed in rural New Kent County last weekend.
CSX officials previously said two locomotives and 53 cars carrying coal derailed into the wetlands around 3:10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25 between Roxbury and South Mountcastle roads. A source told Jon Burkett that a bridge was also “taken out” in the crash.
As a result, the Amtrak trains that use those tracks, which continue through James City County and then Williamsburg before ending at the coal piers in Newport News, have been closed…