Railroad incident?
While I was on my way to work today (approximately 9:40 AM), I noticed an unusual clustering of vehicles on County Road F, where the railroad crossing is, in Vadnais Heights. There were about seven company trucks from the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and maybe nine or so police vehicles, including the large Mobile Incident Command RV. I couldn't see anything obvious to explain it as I went by, but clearly something big was going on. There were still a few folks around when I went home (6:30 PM), partway up the tracks from the road, possibly working on something. Did anyone see on the local news what happened? I'd be almost inclined to guess that there may have been a derailment, but I didn't actually see a train anywhere, and I doubt it could have been taken care of all that quickly and the last train before this morning should have been at about 11 last night, which seems too long. Hints or speculations anyone?
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Seems it was a derailment,
Seems it was a derailment, and the train was reported by my parents to have been at the scene blocking off some roads when they were doing their morning commutes some time earlier.