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SALT LAKE CITY -- 800 South at 600 West in downtown Salt Lake City was closed for more than four hours after five train cars derailed.
Police helping with traffic control on the scene say it appears the train was pulling empty cars out of a cement plant around 5:30 a.m. when something went wrong with the switch that moves the train from one track to the other. The five cars then came off the track as the train was slowly pulling away.
Some curbing on 800 South is damaged and a railroad crossing sign is knocked over, but there are no reports of injuries. The rail the train is on is a secondary line that runs directly into the cement plant so other trains are able to pass on the main set of tracks.
Union Pacific used cranes to put the train cars back onto the tracks. The intersection was reopened just before 10 a.m.
Written by Randall Jeppesen with contributions from Pat Reavy.
