Miltary ordance was among the cargo in three of 13 derailed freight cars on a CSX yard job in Bennett yard here at 8:10 p.m. last Thursday night, blocking all three mainline tracks on the Charleston Subdivision of the Florence Division, at Milepost a388. Of the 10 other cars, one was loaded with a byproduct of the paper milling proces, and the other nine were empty. There were no injuries.Amtrak's busy north-South "A Line" route between New York City and Florida was heavily affected.
-Amtrak train 98, the northbound Silver Meteor from Miami to New York City, was terminated at Charleston, and its 133 passengers were bused to Washington D.C., to board another train north.
-Train 52, the northbound Auto Train from Sanford, Fla., to Lorton, Va., was held at Hardeeville, S.C., then reversed south to savannah, Ga., to be rerouted up the "S Line," the route of Amtrak's New York-Miami Silver Star, through Columbia, S.C., and Raleigh, N.C.
-Southbound Auto Train 53 was held at Selma, N.C., then routed west to Raleigh and south on the "S Line" via Columbia, rejoining its normal route at Savannah.
-Train 90, the northbound Palmetto from Miami to New York, was held at Lake Junction, Fla., before rerouted via the S Line, rejoining its normal route at Selma, N.C.
-Train 97, the southbound Silver Meteor from New York to Miami, was terminated at Fayetteville, N.C., and its 216 passengers bused to their destinations.
-Train 89, the southbound Palmetto from New York to Miami, was also terminated at Fayetteville, with its 114 passengers bused to Jacksonville, Fla., where passengers for the Orlando/Miami route boarded train 91, the southbound Silver Star, and those destined for Waldo, Ocala, Wildwood, Dade City, Lakeland, and Tampa boarded buses. The Palmetto is the only Amtrak train serving Tampa.
-The equipment of the southbound Palmetto, and the southbound Silver Meteor were combined and deadheaded south to Miami after the CSX line was reopened, to cover their normal assignments northbound.
CSX opened its first mainlined track late Friday night, the second by mid-day Saturday, and the third by 6:40 p.m. Saturday. The military cargo, destined for Naval Weapons Station Charleston and not of a dangerous nature, was delivered Saturday. The incident is under investigation.
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