Train carrying 390 tons of gravel derails in Brown County; no injuries reported

SARDINIA, Ohio — A train derailment has shut down one Brown County road.

Officials with Eastern Joint Fire and EMS said a train carrying 390 tons of gravel derailed in Sardinia. Fire captain Levin Troutman said ten cars went off the tracks, with two of them flipped over. There were a total of 30 cars and Troutman explained what happened in the moments leading up to the train derailment.

"They were running ten miles per hour and then all of a sudden they went down to two, and that's when he realized the engineer realized well something is going on why did I just slow down for no reason and he realized the trains went off the tracks," said Troutman. "We know that it rained a lot this morning, so I don't know if that has a factor in it or not, I'm sure I know their whole team is coming to do a whole investigation on it."

Corboy Road will be shut down for the remainder of Tuesday and most of Wednesday as crews work on the scene.

Officials said no one was injured. This is happened on the Cincinnati Eastern Railroad (CCET), and Troutman said this crew on the train was supposed to be fixing parts of the railroad when the train derailed.

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