derailed between Cecil and Harford counties
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Since you live nearby can you explain what county was the event in?
One of the two listed in the article or a different one not named.
On the rail bridge over the Susquehanna River between Cecil and Harford counties in north east Maryland. I live in Harford and have friends in Cecil. I assure you that both exist.
There are two rail bridges. One is only used by CSX. The other is shared with Amtrak. The cars fell off the Amtrak bridge.
As others have mentioned, the wind blows like crazy up or down the river. Trucks tend to flip on the I-95 bridge.
Hard to say without knowing the exact location on the train bridge the derailment occured. The county line between Harford and Cecil counties is somewhere towards the middle of the river. Knowing the length of those trains, part of the train was in Harford County and part in Cecil County (aka Ceciltucky to those Marylanders who disdain us country folk).