Train Strikes Truck Northeast of Pittsburgh, Sending Derailed Cars Into Inlet Near Allegheny River

The scene of a derailed freight train that dumped several train cars into the Allegheny River in Harmar, Penn., on May 26, 2022. Matt Freed/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH—More than a dozen train cars derailed Thursday afternoon after a train collided with a dump truck in Harmar, sending many of the cars into an inlet along the Allegheny River.

County dispatchers said the derailment occurred around 3:50 p.m. in the 2400 block of Freeport Road in Harmar. The area is between the Hulton Bridge and Route 910 and near the Allegheny Valley Joint Sewage Authority Treatment Plant.

The train, operated by Norfolk Southern, collided with a dump truck crossing the tracks, the company said in a statement.