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              Train Derails Outside Baltimore, Buildings Collapse

   by Reuters

   A CSX Corp freight train derailed northeast of Baltimore on Tuesday,
   sparking a fire and causing buildings to collapse, authorities said.

   The train derailed shortly after 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) in  White Marsh,
   Maryland, and there were no reports of injuries, a spokeswoman for the
   Baltimore County Police Department said. The cause of the accident was
   unknown.

   The Baltimore County Fire Department said on its official Twitter feed
   that there was a fire at the scene. Preliminary reports said several
   buildings had collapsed, it said.

   Baltimore's WBAL-AM radio reported that several freight cars were on
   fire.

   An attempt to reach CSX for comment was not immediately successful.

   It was the third significant rail crash in the United States in the
   past two weeks. On Saturday, two freight trains operated by BNSF
   Railway Co and Union Pacific Corp crashed at a rail intersection in
   rural Missouri, injuring seven people.

   That accident came a little more than a week after a Metro North
   commuter train derailed near Fairfield, Connecticut, injuring more than
   70 people and shutting down traffic on one of the most heavily traveled
   rail corridors in the United States.

   On Friday, an interstate highway bridge in a rural part of Washington
   state collapsed after a truck carrying a large load hit a support beam.
   The collapse sent vehicles and drivers tumbling into a frigid river.
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