CSX Train Derailment; Lynchburg, Virginia

Lynchburg, Virginia | 2014-Apr-30

Initial Notification: On the afternoon of 30 April 2014, an estimated 18 cars of a CSX train, carrying Bakken crude oil, derailed in the City of Lynchburg, which caused an intense fire. The fire have been extinguished. Three of the cars fell into the James River and are laying on the bank of the river. There is an estimated 10,000 to 23,000 gallons of oil in the river, depending on how much oil was consumed in the fire.