ELMWOOD, La. (WGNO) - Nearly a dozen shipping containers and some train cars were blown off elevated tracks in Jefferson Parish Monday.
WGNO reporter Jabari Thomas captured the moment when strong winds knocked over some train cars on the Huey P. Long Bridge. It happened around 10:30 a.m. Monday in Elmwood behind the Raising Cane's restaurant on South Clearview Parkway and Bloomfield Street.
Nancy Stoltz, with the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, said the Union Pacific train was traveling about 4 mph when winds knocked the containers off the bridge.
No injuries were reported.
Stoltz said structural engineers are enroute to assess the remaining cars and any damage to the tracks.
Jefferson Parish Haz-mat reports the containers do not contain hazardous or sensitive materials.
The Huey P. Long Bridge is open in both directions at this time to vehicular traffic.
Patricia oneal
Jessica a show this to BO and
bill Kropog
oh no you dinnit!!!
Conservative Mark
It’s hard to stop a train.
Sheila
I have feared all my life this was going to happen some day
Alfredo Sanchez
Mother nature is only going to get worse with the ever increasing green house gasses human populations feed to her .
Wendell Strait
No such thing as global warming caused by humans you tree hugging Idiot.
Chris
That’s right! The scientific reports paid for by the oil companies say so!
Harold
who in the world is Mother Nature? Greenhouse gas? Maybe you should stop eating so many beans ,after all the scientist said that the cows were causing methane gas.
smith.stewart@ymail.com
No matter which side of the global warming issue you are on, it is not going to fixed with a tax. Cap and Trade only lines the pockets of Obama’s masters.
Bobby Berliew
Susan is such a proven Liberal that she can’t understand any thing happening anyway, so don’t take her word for anything. She isn’t an honest reporter..
Ronald Head
must have been empties………..
mollyannk
Someone needed their canes.
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Someone is not happy with the amount of money they have
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Someone is not content with all the money they have
Matthew H Constant
This is incredible. Looks like the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad’s going to be doing some big-time repairs to the guardrails.
Mathue
Wow, the second time I’ve seen strong weather derail a train!
Bob_of_Bonsall
Over on this side of the pond we had several spans of the original Tay Bridge blow over in a particularly horrendous storm, sadly, complete with train and occasionally get containers blown off the wagons, but this is the first time I’ve seen the wagons go over with the containers.
However, with railway operating experience myself, I work for the UK’s Network Rail, I’m wondering what idiot allowed empty containers over such an exposed bridge in that weather?
PaulJW
No words? How could the driver not see or hear what was happening. Especially after the flash of light so close from the power lines shorting out. Nothing out of the driver. The sound was on & recording. I can hear the storm, just no words.
Bob_of_Bonsall
I presume you refer tot he car driver.
He’d already gone into the diner for shelter and had left the cam running.