A train derailed in Boulder, Colo., on Thursday night, injuring two crew members, damaging a rail bridge, and knocking out power for some customers in the area, the authorities said on Friday.
BNSF Railway, which operates freight railroad networks in North America, said the train derailed at about 11:13 p.m. on Thursday near Boulder Creek, spilling a “small amount” of fuel that did not affect the creek. The injured workers were treated at a hospital and released, it said, and crews were working on Friday to clear the area.
There was no threat to the public, the railway said. There was no further information about the freight on the train and its destination.
The Boulder Police Department said that roads were shut down for several hours but had reopened on Friday morning as crews worked to clean up and move the derailed cars. The train was about a mile long, it said.
The mishap took place near Boulder Community Health, a medical center in the city of about 105,000 people, which is home to the University of Colorado at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Northern Colorado.
BNSF said the train had “made contact” with nearby equipment, but the railway and the police gave no further details about what caused the derailment.
A rail bridge was destroyed and a power line was “affected,” the police said. An Xcel Energy outage map showed about 200 customers were without power in the area, but it was not immediately clear whether all of the outages were caused by the derailment.
The police department initially stated that fuel from the engine had leaked into the creek, and later added that all the fuel was believed to have been absorbed by sand that had spilled out of one of the cars.
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