{"id":6597,"date":"2013-10-04T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=6597"},"modified":"2013-10-04T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T20:37:19","slug":"norfolk-southern-train-derails-in-ruffin-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/6597\/norfolk-southern-train-derails-in-ruffin-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Southern Train Derails in Ruffin, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUFFIN, NC &#8211; A Norfolk Southern train derailed on Tuesday October 1, in Ruffin, NC blocking the road with one rail car and sending another into a residential back yard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6607\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6607\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6607 \" title=\"ruffin-nc-norfolk-southern-train-derailment1\" alt=\"A Norfolk Southern rail car was blocking a road in Ruffin, NC after a train derailed on October 1, 2013. Photo credit: myfox8.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ruffin-nc-norfolk-southern-train-derailment1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ruffin-nc-norfolk-southern-train-derailment1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ruffin-nc-norfolk-southern-train-derailment1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rail car blocking a road in Ruffin, NC after a train derailed on Oct. 1, 2013. Photo: myfox8.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The derailment happened around 9:00 a.m. Tuesday morning, October 1, when a Norfolk Southern train on its way to Allentown, PA jumped the tracks in Ruffin. The 95 car train was heading north from Linwood, NC when 3 rail cars left the tracks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6611\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6611 \" title=\" ruffin-nc-norfolk-southern-train-derailment-map\" alt=\"Map shows location of Norfolk Southern train derailment at Lick Fork Creek Rd and Ruffin Rd in Ruffin, NC on October 1, 2013.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ruffin-nc-norfolk-southern-train-derailment-map.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ruffin-nc-norfolk-southern-train-derailment-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ruffin-nc-norfolk-southern-train-derailment-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map\u00a0 of train derailment at Lick Fork Creek Rd and Ruffin Rd in Ruffin, NC Oct. 1, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two of the derailed cars were empty tankers and the other contained paper.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported and no railroad workers were hurt in the mishap.<\/p>\n<p>There was no hazardous materials involved and no evacuations were ordered.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Ruffin is located in Rockingham County, N.C. in the northern part of the state about 31.8 miles northeast of Greensboro.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the derailment is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Blog post by Gordon &#038;amp Elias, a FELA lawyer and <a title=\"North Carolina railroad injury lawyer\" href=\"\/CM\/FELA\/North-Carolina-FELA-Overview.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"> North Carolina railroad injury lawyer<\/a> who publishes train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUFFIN, NC &#8211; A Norfolk Southern train derailed on Tuesday October 1, in Ruffin, NC blocking the road with one rail car and sending another into a residential back yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,93,50],"tags":[111,286],"class_list":["post-6597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fela-law","category-norfolk-southern-railroad","category-north-carolina-railroad-news","category-train-derailments","tag-north-carolina-fela-lawyer","tag-north-carolina-railroad-injury-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597","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\/1255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6597"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6622,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}