Residents return home after train derailment in northern Minnesota

A bid derailment involving implicit 40 railcars successful Roseau County, Minnesota, connected Saturday greeting prompted evacuations, according to the sheriff's office.

The derailment of the Canadian National Railway bid happened northbound of Warroad astir 4:50 a.m. The sheriff's bureau said 42 cars derailed, including 2 that are classified arsenic "dangerous goods," a designation that the Federal Railroad Administration says includes vigor products, chemicals, hazardous wastes and radioactive materials.

"There are nary reported leaks, injuries oregon fires and nary interaction to crossings," a CN spokesperson said successful an email to Sheriff Steve Gust.

Several railcars from a Canadian National Railway bid laic disconnected the tracks northbound of Warroad, Minnesota, aft a bid derailment connected March 28, 2026. Roseau County Sheriff Steve Gust

Hazardous materials teams were checking for leaks and monitoring the aerial astatine the country connected Saturday afternoon, the sheriff's bureau said. According to officials, determination are nary biology concerns.

First responders and CN employees were moving connected clearing and cleaning up the scene, which officials said could instrumentality 2 to 3 days.

CN said the origin of the derailment is nether investigation.

"There's been a derailment adjacent you, and perchance evacuation," Jim Kindrick said, speechmaking an alert connected his phone. "I'm like, oh, my. So I walked out, and I saw the bid was stopped close successful beforehand of the house."

Law enforcement asked families successful the area, similar the Kindricks, to evacuate, a precaution arsenic exigency responders worked successful the area. They spent the nighttime astatine a edifice and were capable to instrumentality location the adjacent day. 

On Sunday, the sheriff's bureau confirmed determination are nary biology concerns. Teams with dense instrumentality are moving to upright the derailed cars and repair damage, which region officials accidental could proceed for a fewer weeks.

A spokesperson for the Canadian National Railway said crews worked done the nighttime to get trains moving done the country again, adding the origin of the derailment is inactive nether investigation. 

"A ton of radical helping out," said Kindrick, thankful for the teams who mobilized quickly. "When you unrecorded successful a tiny municipality and it's a unpaid occurrence section ... I cognize that those guys were retired determination each day." 

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