Train derailed by avalanche debris

Tess Williams

ALASKA

Anchorage Daily News

No one was injured when an Alaska Railroad freight train derailed early Tuesday after plowing into avalanche debris south of Girdwood.

The Anchorage-bound train struck a large pile of debris that covered the tracks near rail mile post 71.5 — or for drivers, near Mile 87 of the Seward Highway — by the time the train got to that section at about 2 a.m., said Christy Terry, a spokeswoman for the railroad. Two locomotives were derailed and a third was partially derailed.

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