FRANKLIN COUNTY, Mo. — No one was injured when an Amtrak train carrying more than 100 passengers derailed Monday evening just east of Washington, Missouri.
The Lincoln Service Missouri River Runner derailed near the area of Ming Drive, north of Highway 100, along a stretch of tracks that run along the Missouri River. The scene was about six miles east of the Washington Station, an Amtrak station that sits in the downtown Washington historic district.
An Amtrak spokesperson said in a statement that shortly before 5 p.m., the train, consisting of one locomotive and seven cars, made contact with a tree on the tracks, causing the rear axle of the locomotive to lose contact with the tracks.
The train's 124 passengers and five crew members were uninjured.
Train 319 operates daily between Chicago and Kansas City, via St. Louis, and uses a route owned, maintained and controlled by Union Pacific Railroad.
Power was later restored to the train and Amtrak was making arrangements to transport passengers to their destinations, the company said.
Officials shut down Highway 100 from St. Johns Road to Jones Lane as they handled the scene.
There was no estimate for when the roadway would reopen.
