Coal train derails near Cloquet, sending 40 cars off tracks

February 17, 2019 at 1:40AM

Crews were working Saturday night to clean up coal spilled when a BNSF train derailed by the frozen St. Louis River near Cloquet, Minn.

Forty cars from the train went off the rails about 11:30 a.m. Saturday, BNSF spokeswoman Amy McBeth said in an e-mail. No one was hurt.

Some coal spilled onto the river ice, and was being cleared away by railway employees.

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