MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Railway officials are pointing to “metal fatigue” in a track switch as the cause of the derailment of two freight train cars — one of them containing limestone, the other one empty — on tracks off Seymour Street in Middlebury at around 10 a.m. in Tuesday, July 2. A crane was en route to the accident scene, located behind the Danforth Pewter property at 52 Seymour St., as the Addison Independent went to press on Tuesday mid-afternoon, according to Vermont Rail officials. Selden Houghton, … (read more)
