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Freight train derails as floods on Mississippi River crest

By Marisa Wojcik, Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

April 28, 2023 • West Central Region

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A BNSF freight train derailed near De Soto along the Mississippi River where soils are saturated due to ongoing flooding in La Crosse, Prairie du Chien and elsewhere in western Wisconsin.

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