Video: Fiery Train Derailment Leads to Evacuation of Illinois Town

A freight train carrying ethanol jumped the tracks in northern Illinois, causing a nearly half-mile-long explosion and prompting the evacuation of the town’s 800 residents. The train crashed at about 2 a.m. Friday morning on the outskirts of Tiskilwa, Ill., WLS reports, when 26 cars on the 131-car train derailed. At least six of them

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Video: Fiery Train Derailment Leads to Evacuation of Illinois Town

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