A CSX Corp freight train carrying coal derailed while crossing an overpass west of Baltimore, killing two 19-year-old women and crushing several cars parked near the bridge, officials said on Tuesday.
Police received a call around midnight that an eastbound CSX train had come off the tracks in downtown Ellicott City, about 12 miles west of Baltimore.
Rescue workers discovered two bodies in the wreckage, police said. The victims were identified as Ellicott City residents Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr.
Nass was a student at Virginia’s James Madison University, according to her Facebook page. Mayr was a student at the University of Delaware, according to her Facebook page.
Twenty-one of the train’s 80 cars left the tracks in the accident, police said. Operators of the train's two locomotives were unharmed.
The train originated from Grafton, W. Va., and was bound for Baltimore, the company said.
CSX, the second-largest U.S. railroad by both revenue and stock market capitalization, said the accident has not significantly affected rail traffic in the region because of alternative routes in the Baltimore area.
Police received a call around midnight that an eastbound CSX train had come off the tracks in downtown Ellicott City, about 12 miles west of Baltimore.
Rescue workers discovered two bodies in the wreckage, police said. The victims were identified as Ellicott City residents Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr.
Nass was a student at Virginia’s James Madison University, according to her Facebook page. Mayr was a student at the University of Delaware, according to her Facebook page.
Twenty-one of the train’s 80 cars left the tracks in the accident, police said. Operators of the train's two locomotives were unharmed.
The train originated from Grafton, W. Va., and was bound for Baltimore, the company said.
CSX, the second-largest U.S. railroad by both revenue and stock market capitalization, said the accident has not significantly affected rail traffic in the region because of alternative routes in the Baltimore area.