Scene photo from Tim Olk at 2PM
The Class 3 ARFF from the West Chicago at the DuPage County Airport is working at the scene. Tim Olk photo
Scene photo from Tim Olk at 1PM
Firefighters advance a hand line towards the still burning tank cars. Tim Olk photo
Metra says service on its Milwaukee West Line may not be back to normal until Friday, at the earliest, because of a fiery freight train derailment near Elgin.
All trains have been blocked on the line since at least 12 cars of a Canadian National train derailed at about 5:30 a.m. today in an industrial area at 31 West 504 Spaulding near Elgin and Bartlett. Three of the cars caught fire, but there were no injuries and no evacuations.
Officials said the train was carrying three chemicals — sodium hydroxide, ferrous sulfate and organic acid — but they were not on the cars that caught fire. Bartlett police said two of the burning cars carried fiberboard and scrap metal and the third was empty.
A camera phone photo from Tim Olk shows fire continuing to burn in at least one car.
Two tower ladders are working at the train derailment. Tim Olk photo
The Chicago Sun-Times has a report with video HERE
Radioman911 submitted this summary
2011/11/03 Bartlett (Elgin FD) Freight Train Derailment w/ Fire and HazMat. 3 non-hazmat cars involved in fire. Chemicals involved in the derailment included ferrous sulfate, organic acid, and sodium hydroxide solution. Derailment site was in an industrial area near W. Bartlett Rd. w/ of Rt. 59.
He also has links to the radio traffic
