Watch: A week after train derails on Oregon bridge, crews keep working to rescue stranded locomotives

A week after a Portland & Western Railroad train ran off its rails while crossing a wooden bridge over a small river near the Oregon coast, three train cars are still stranded on the damaged bridge.

The train was headed from Toledo to Albany in the early morning hours of Jan. 21, when it derailed on the small trestle over Olalla Slough.

Six cars ran off the tracks: three locomotives, a slug — a train car with no engine that helps boost the train’s traction — and two boxcars. The train crew walked away injury free…

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