Area residents noticed when a Norfolk Southern Railway train derailed in Ohio, spewing clouds of toxic gas and later smoke. After all, Norfolk Southern trains pass through Western North Carolina.

Area residents noticed when a Norfolk Southern Railway train derailed in Ohio, spewing clouds of toxic gas and later smoke. After all, Norfolk Southern trains pass through Western North Carolina.
Activists yesterday chained themselves to railroad tracks to block a train carrying coal to Duke Energy’s Marshall coal plant in Catawba County near Terell, NC.
(Photo courtesy of Greenpeace)