Train Derailment Destroys Nearby Buildings

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A train derailment had emergency crews bracing for the worst after 17 CSX cars came off the tracks Sunday morning in Sumner County.

The train was carrying brand-new cars and SUVs.

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn.- A train derailment had emergency crews bracing for the worst after 17 CSX cars came off the tracks Sunday morning in Sumner County.

By Monday afternoon all but the last few cars were moved off the tracks. CSX crews worked well-into Sunday night to clear the mess.

The derailment looked bad, but if there was a such thing as a good derailment, this was it.

The accident happened on Rockland Road on the edge of the Hendersonville city limits. Luckily, for emergency crews and hazardous materials teams, this CSX train traveling from Louisville, Ky., to Nashville carrying 91 cars, was carrying brand new cars, trucks and SUVs instead of hazardous materials.

There were no dangerous chemicals, spills or leakage, but emergency workers were concerned about three nearby metal buildings destroyed Sunday morning when the 17 cars derailed. One of those buildings stores chemicals for the White House Utility district. Any run-off from that building was quickly contained.

Emergency crews said it will be up to CSX to investigate and pinpoint what caused those cars to jump the tracks. CSX said that the investigation would look at how the train was operated, the condition of the tracks and the condition of the cars.