{"id":1790,"date":"2010-11-15T11:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T19:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:12:07","slug":"union-pacific-train-derails-in-little-rock-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/1790\/union-pacific-train-derails-in-little-rock-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pacific Train Derails in Little Rock AR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLE ROCK, AR &#8211; A Union Pacific train derailed near Little Rock Central High School on Sunday morning, November 14. Nine cars derailed near West 17th Street about 10:20 a.m., Capt. Edwin Woolf of the Little Rock Fire Department said. Emergency crews were dispatched immediately.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1797\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1797\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1797\" title=\"Union Pacific train derailment Little Rock AR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Union-Pacific-train-derailment-Little-Rock-AR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Union-Pacific-train-derailment-Little-Rock-AR.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Union-Pacific-train-derailment-Little-Rock-AR-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Union Pacific workers inspect the scene of a Union Pacific train derailment near West 17th Street in Little Rock on Sunday morning, November 14. Photo by Staton Breidenthal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Woolf said two fire trucks responded and found that \u201call the cars were upright and there were no leaks\u201d or injuries. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Raquel Espinoza, spokesman for Union Pacific Railroad Co., said the train was local, heading from a Union Pacific terminal in North Little Rock to Biddle Yard in Little Rock.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/little-rock-ar-union-pacific-train-derailment-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"little-rock-ar-union-pacific-train-derailment-map\" width=\"480\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/little-rock-ar-union-pacific-train-derailment-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/little-rock-ar-union-pacific-train-derailment-map-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The railroad line was part of White Bluff Subdivision, which runs north and south, Espinoza said.<\/p>\n<p>Union Pacific Officials were on the scene investigating a possible cause.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported at the time of the incident and the box cars did not contain any hazardous materials.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\n<a href=\"  http:\/\/www.arkansasonline.com\/news\/2010\/nov\/15\/9-railcars-veer-tracks-near-lrs-central-h-20101115\/?news-arkansas\" target=\"_blank\">Arkansasonline.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.todaysthv.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?storyid=127705&amp;catid=2\" target=\"_blank\">Todays TVH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published by <a title=\"fela lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arkansas FELA lawyer<\/a> Gordon &#038;amp Elias, LLP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLE ROCK, AR &#8211; A Union Pacific train derailed near Little Rock Central High School on Sunday morning, November 14. Nine cars derailed near West 17th Street about 10:20 a.m., Capt. Edwin Woolf of the Little Rock Fire Department said. Emergency crews were dispatched immediately. Woolf said two fire trucks responded and found that \u201call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,9],"tags":[169,170,136],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arkansas-railroad-news","category-union-pacific","tag-arkansas-fela-lawyer","tag-little-rock-fela-lawyer","tag-railroad-injury-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5779,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/5779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}