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Cleanup continues after shortline derailment in Idaho

By Trains Staff | October 14, 2022

| Last updated on February 16, 2024


Eastern Idaho Railroad involved in incident in Twin Falls

String of derailed freight cars
Derailed cars of an Eastern Idaho Railroad train await cleanup Thursday in Twin Falls, Idaho. Screen shot from Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Department video

TWIN FALLS, Idaho โ€” Cleanup continued Thursday after about a dozen cars of an Eastern Idaho Railroad derailed Wednesday night, KMTV reports.

No injuries or hazardous-materials situation were reported as a result of the accident, which blocked Hankins Road in the southern Idaho community.

The Eastern Idaho Railroad, a Watco property, operates 385 route-miles in two separate clusters of former Union Pacific branch lines spun off in 1993. Twin Falls is part of the southern segment, which interchanges with UP in Minidoka, Idaho.

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