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Two killed as CSX train derails in Ellicott City overnight The women had been tweeting from near the tracks before the CSX train hauling coal near Ellicott City derailed. Some of the train cars fell off the 20-foot-tall bridge and onto vehicles parked beneath.
Aug. 23, 2012
A CSX train, going about 10 mph, makes a test run through the accident site in Ellicott City while crews continue clearing piles of coal.
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Aug. 23, 2012
Natalie Lewis, 10, and her mother, Nancy, hold on tight to each other while watching a test train make its way over a trestle. Natalie's sister, Rachel, went to school with Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr, who were killed Monday when a train derailed there, spilling its load of coal on them as they sat on the trestle.
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Aug. 23, 2012
Workers clean up coal that fell into the Patapsco River. The CSX train had 80 cars filled with 9,000 tons of coal.
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Aug. 23, 2012
Mickey and Tina McDaniel watch the train's test run. Mickey, who has lived in Ellicott City for 43 years, said that when he was about the age of the two women who were killed -- 19 -- he also used to hang out along the train tracks and drink. "We'd be out of sight, out of mind with the police," he said.
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Aug. 23, 2012
Andrew Van de Castle and his son, Matthew, 6, of Catonsville look over the railroad tracks.
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Aug. 23, 2012
Alexa Suazo, left, Olivia Suazo and Natalie Booker at a memorial for Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr. Nass was the babysitter for one of their friends.
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Aug. 23, 2012
Rose Mayr and Elizabeth Nass were about to head to college for their junior years, Mayr to the University of Delaware and Nass to James Madison University. Nass's funeral was held Friday in Ellicott City. "Elizabeth and Rose were at the wrong place at the wrong time, and that doesn't seem to be a satisfying answer," Monsignor John A. Dietzenbach said. Mayr's funeral is Saturday.
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The deaths of Elizabeth Nass, left, and Rose Mayr, both 19, on Tuesday a few minutes after midnight provided investigators with more questions than answers.
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Aug. 21, 2012
An aerial view of a CSX train that flipped off the tracks in Ellicott City.
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Aug. 21, 2012
An aerial view of the scene of the train derailment in Ellicott City, Md.
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Aug. 21, 2012
An aerial view of a CSX train that flipped off the tracks in Ellicott City.
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Aug. 21, 2012
The scene of the CSX train derailment.
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Aug. 21, 2012
One of the 21 coal cars is moved to be loaded onto a flatbed truck as the cleanup from the derailment starts.
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Aug. 21, 2012
A woman photographs the scene of the train derailment in Ellicott City.
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Aug. 21, 2012
One of the 21 coal cars is loaded onto a flatbed truck as the cleanup from the derailment starts in Ellicott City.
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Aug. 21, 2012
Jim Southworth of the National Transportation Safety Board speaks to members of the media about the CSX train derailment.
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Aug. 21, 2012
A CSX train carrying hopper cars filled with coal derailed early Tuesday in Ellicott City, killing two people nearby.
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Aug. 21, 2012
Coal cars from the eastbound 80-car CSX train that flipped off the tracks in Ellicott City. Police identified the two victims as Elizabeth Conway Nass and Rose Louese Mayr, both 19 and from Ellicott City.
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Aug. 21, 2012
Howard County police said that 21 of the train’s 80 cars derailed or overturned about 12 miles outside Baltimore, falling off the tracks that run along the Patapsco River.
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Aug. 21, 2012
Workers stand near one of the coal cars of the derailed train behind the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum: Ellicott City Station.
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Aug. 21, 2012
A bulldozer moves a piece of equipment past a section of the derailed train.
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Aug. 21, 2012
A bulldozer moves a piece of equipment down Main Street under a section of the train that derailed. The train was en route from Grafton,W.Va., to Baltimore.
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Aug. 21, 2012
Rescue workers found the bodies of the two women who had been near the tracks at the time of the accident. Two train operators were onboard, but neither was injured.
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Aug. 21, 2012
The cause of the derailment is being investigated by CSX. Authorities said the train crushed several vehicles parked in a county-owned lot beneath the tracks. Cranes are being brought in to remove the train cars from the vehicles, and investigators are searching for additional victims. The rail bridge is reportedly about 20 feet off the ground.
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