February 9, 2013
No injuries reported in Harrison County train derailment
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Gore, W.Va. --No one was injured when a train went off its tracks in Harrison County Saturday, dispatcher said.

The CSX train, which carried coal and grain, derailed around 4:21 p.m. on Downriver Road in Gore, according to a dispatcher from the Harrison County Sheriff's Office.

The caboose and three or four other train cars went over an embankment, the dispatcher said. The train spilled some diesel fuel and struck a Mon Power pole and transformer, dispatchers say.

Representatives from local fire departments, the state Department of Environmental Protection, CSX and Mon Power were on scene, according to the dispatcher.

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