Interstate 25 in southern Colorado is expected to reopen Thursday, four days after the main north-south route through the state was shut down when a train derailment collapsed a railroad bridge onto the highway and killed a truck driver. Gov.
Workers repair Interstate 25 northbound Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, north of Pueblo, Colo. A train derailed and spilled railcars on to Interstate 25 Sunday, forcing officials to close the main highway and reroute traffic through Pueblo. Colorado Governor Jared Polis said that the southbound lanes of the interstate will reopen to travellers on Wednesday afternoon; northbound lanes will be navigable some time on Thursday. Colorado Gov.
The steel bridge, built in 1958, collapsed Sunday when 30 cars from a BNSF Railway train hauling coal derailed while crossing over I-25. Investigators are examiningA 9-mile stretch of I-25 — used by 39,000 to 44,000 vehicles daily — was shut down as crews cleared hundreds of tons of spilled coal and mangled railcars from the roadway. Traffic was being detoured around the derailment site and through the town of Penrose, almost 30 miles west of Pueblo.
The southbound lanes of I-25 were being repaved Wednesday and were expected to open later in the day. Crews were working to open the northbound lanes by Thursday evening. “Our top priority is to get the highway back open so that people can continue traveling safely between Colorado Springs and Pueblo, and the rest of the state,” Polis said, adding that “it remains clear that investments in rail are needed now more than ever.”that triggered evacuations in Ohio and Pennsylvania. There were more than 12,400 train derailments in the U.S.
At least 111 railroad accidents have been caused by bridge failures or bridge misalignments since 1976, according to an Associated Press review of derailment reports railroads submitted to the Federal Railroad Administration. That’s just over two accidents annually on average.
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