Oregon regulators fined a railroad company about $82,000 after its trestle bridge in Corvallis collapsed last January, causing a train derailment that dumped toxic chemicals into the river below. But that railroad company has appealed the fine and disputed even basic facts about what the state says happened.
Portland & Western Railroad filed an appeal last month, as reported by The Corvallis Gazette-Times. In its appeal, Pacific & Western says the derailment didn’t have a “significant adverse impact” on people or the environment.
In its enforcement notice, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says the derailment released almost 200 tons of urea into Marys River…