Roanoke train derailment causes traffic delays

ROANOKE, Texas - Crews spent the morning cleaning up after a train derailed in Roanoke in Denton County.

The accident happened early Tuesday morning near Highway 377. Three coal cars and one locomotive went off the tracks.

No one was hurt, but the derailment is caused significant traffic delays in the city.

All railroad crossings between Byron Nelson Boulevard and Henrietta Creek Road were closed before railroad crews safely moved the train.

Part of southbound Hwy. 377 was also shut down because of the work.

Roanoke Deputy Fire Chief Doug Parks said the cleanup was a very methodical, tedious process.

"With it being coal, our biggest concern is any distal fuel leaking from the locomotive, which it's not. We've already uncoupled the train, and they've moved it down to open up the crossings. So that's done. Now it's just getting this cleaned up right here at the site where the derailment occurred. That's the biggest thing, and they have crews on site doing that," he said.

There was no safety threat to the public.