CLEVELAND COUNTY, N.C. — A Cleveland County road is expected to reopen Thursday afternoon after a train derailed Tuesday and spilled hundreds of pounds of corn, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
Emergency crews were called Tuesday morning to Airport Road near Case Farms in Shelby.
Officials said the train was hauling hundreds of pounds of corn when it derailed. There is no word on what caused the train to derail.
Hundreds of pounds of corn spilled when 4 cars derailed from a train near Case Farms on Airport Road near Shelby. The road is closed. pic.twitter.com/UEEHdDSIAu
— Ken (@kenlemonWSOC9) April 18, 2017
No one was hurt in the derailment.
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