The derailment was near the area across the river from the John Deere Dubuque Works factory. Fourteen cars left the track. Regina Brennan, who lives across the river in Dubuque County, said her neighbor spotted the derailment and called her. The railroad says 26 cars from a 99-car train derailed around 6 a.m. Sunday about 10 miles south of Dubuque.
The BNSF freight train appeared to be heading north along the Mississippi River.
Rolling through this scenic area, the crew spotted a boulder on the track ahead and hit it, derailing the locomotive and around 12 cars, several of them in the river, according to a report by the Telegraph Herald. That's in Dubuque … "Burlington North Trail," hmmm. The advisory says both BNSF main tracks were affected after a derailment at 10:53 am. Dubuque Fire Department responded with the Sherrill Fire Department to a call of a train derailment, the train was hauling 81 cars of ethanol. The Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office said the train of empty sand cars was headed north at the time of the derailment. A 911 - hangup call came into dispatch this morning around 11:22 am, The subject on the phone called in a train derailment on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi River just north of the John Deere plant. A freight train, owned by Canadian Pacific Railway, carrying ethanol fuel with one car engulfed in flames, sits on the banks of the Mississippi River in a remote location north of Dubuque… The derailment occured at the crossovers near East Cabin and 5th Street. A detour is in place until further notice. To further investigate, she hopped in her car and drove … DUBUQUE, Iowa – A partial train derailment in downtown Dubuque has forced a precautionary closure of the northbound lanes of Highways 151/61 north of the Locust Street Connector.
SHERRILL, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) - First responders tell TV9 seven cars on a Canadian Pacific train have derailed near the Mississippi River and Waupeton Road in Sherrill. It was not immediately clear Sunday how long it would take to clean up the cars. Iowa Department of Natural Resources staff are on the scene of a train derailment in which three railcars caught fire and another three plunged into the Mississippi River. Railroad draining ethanol from derailed train cars near Dubuque, monitoring river 'Some ethanol has reached the water, but we're not sure how much' Grant County Authorities were Informed by Dubuque's Dispatch. Train derailment Dave Kettering; Apr 20, 2020 Apr 20, 2020; Facebook; Twitter; WhatsApp; SMS; Email; Print; Save; Buy Now.
Officials said the derailment was caused by a large boulder (pictured on the right).