Boulder causes train derailment in West Virginia, officials say

We're working for you to find out the environmental damage and how fire-EMS crews responded so quickly.

[mrk]

Did they catch and arrest the boulder that did it? 😂

[melissacole]

This one's actually a legit freak accident. Rock slides are extremely common in summers county and there's really no way to stop them from happening, short of leveling all of the mountains. I happen to like our mountains and I vote we keep them 😂

[BDRHDG]

It was an eroded Boulder a boulder is a large smooth eroded Rock

[Junkinsally]

We've had so much rain this winter, surprised we haven't had more rockslides. There was a small slide on route 20 not to far from this location last week. Unfortunately this stuff is common in the mountains!

[donpatrick]

That is a big boulder and not going to be moved off the track by the momentum of the consist ... was there any seismic activity in the area?

[mrk]

At 2:30 Don’t worry, when the diesel exhaust smoke goes in to the air it comes back down polluting the environment when it rains. 😂

[joefin]

Railroads spend millions on right-of-way maintenance. Somebody (geotechnical) missed that outcrop moving for some time.

[chrissybloulam]

Look at that "Boulder" look pretty rectangular & man made to me.