The Associated Press - Wed, May. 23, 2007
DENVER -- Beer and asphalt spilled out of rail cars in downtown Denver Wednesday after a string of 34 freight cars crashed into parked locomotives, derailing four of the cars and damaging others.
No one was injured and nothing got into waterways, said Steve Forsberg, a spokesman for Fort Worth, Texas-based BNSF Railway. The railroad's mainline operations were not affected.
Forsberg said a switch engine was assembling a train at about 4:30 a.m. when the crew lost control of the 34 cars, and they rolled downhill into two stationary locomotives.
A tanker car carrying Coors beer overturned and spilled its contents onto the yard, Forsberg said. Another car carrying asphalt was damaged and leaked.
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