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Freight Train Derails in Bureau County, Affects Knox County
WYANET, Ill. (AP) -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe says crews are cleaning up after a freight train derailed in north-central Illinois.

Company spokesman Steve Forsberg says 19 cars of a 92-car freight train derailed near Wyanet in Bureau County. He says plastic pellets spilled out of one car. No one was injured in the derailment Saturday night.

Forsberg says BNSF expects to have tracks reopened by sometime Monday. The cause of the derailment is under investigation.

The derailment also affected some passenger trains. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari says the company is rerouting passengers on some trains by bus and a few trains have been detoured to bypass the closed tracks.

Eyewitnesses tell WGIL they've seen Amtrak trains letting passengers on and off on Broad Street in Galesburg instead of the Amtrak depot because of the closed tracks. The area they're being let off at is the site of what once was a former Amtrak depot.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. WGIL News contributed to this report.)
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