Crescent (1/4) affected by ATL freight derailment?

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http://www.ajc.com/news/train-derails-in-downtown-794585.html

Several major roads through downtown Douglasville were shut down Tuesday morning as crews began cleaning up an overnight train derailment. Eleven cars of the Norfolk Southern train derailed about 1 a.m. in the heart of the city west of Atlanta. No injuries were reported.Tallon told the AJC that railroad officials were hoping to have the tracks cleared by Tuesday afternoon.

 

"This is the main [rail] line going west out of Atlanta to everywhere west," Tallon said.

 

"The detour for the trains is an additional 140 miles," he said. "One of the engineers told us that, for example, a train leaving Atlanta and going to Birmingham, it will have to go Atlanta to Chattanooga to Birmingham."

 

Tallon said that an estimated 44 trains use the tracks daily, "and it's freight and Amtrak. It's extremely busy."

Anyone heard of any Crescent delays affected by this? Wouldn't the morning Crescent going to NOLA thru ATL had to have taken an alternate route?
 
http://www.ajc.com/news/train-derails-in-downtown-794585.html

Several major roads through downtown Douglasville were shut down Tuesday morning as crews began cleaning up an overnight train derailment. Eleven cars of the Norfolk Southern train derailed about 1 a.m. in the heart of the city west of Atlanta. No injuries were reported.Tallon told the AJC that railroad officials were hoping to have the tracks cleared by Tuesday afternoon.

 

"This is the main [rail] line going west out of Atlanta to everywhere west," Tallon said.

 

"The detour for the trains is an additional 140 miles," he said. "One of the engineers told us that, for example, a train leaving Atlanta and going to Birmingham, it will have to go Atlanta to Chattanooga to Birmingham."

 

Tallon said that an estimated 44 trains use the tracks daily, "and it's freight and Amtrak. It's extremely busy."

Anyone heard of any Crescent delays affected by this? Wouldn't the morning Crescent going to NOLA thru ATL had to have taken an alternate route?
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