PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A train car carrying ethanol has derailed in Providence but officials say there were no spills.
A tanker car went off of the tracks after 1 a.m. Wednesday and entered a busy four-lane road in an industrial area near the city’s port. Officials say the car was carrying 30,000 gallons of ethanol.
The train car was still jutting into Allens Avenue late Wednesday morning. It’s expected to take a long time to remove it.
No one was injured and no ethanol leaked. The rail car had crashed through a barrier and then through a fence at a facility for fuel distributor Motiva Enterprises.
The state Department of Environmental Management says vacuum trucks are pumping ethanol out of the rail car. Once empty, cranes will move it off the road.
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