(Photo of locomotive fire provide by Baden Fire Department)
Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News Correspondent
(Baden, Pa.) Social media was a buzz early Monday afternoon as videos on Facebook showed a Norfolk Southern train with one of its locomotives on fire traveling along the tracks beside the Ohio River in Rochester and Freedom . Connnor A. Spielmaker, Media Relations Manager for Norfolk Southern Railroad said via release that one of it’s locomotive’s caught fire Monday while traveling south bound. Baden Fire Chief, Dennis Baker said the incident occurred   somewhere on the tracks in Rochester. The train finally stopped in Baden , about one quarter of a mile from the Pinney Street Bridge. Mr. Spielmaker  said the crew brought the train to a stop and exited the lead locomotive, and added there was no one in the trailing locomotive that caught fire. he said the locomotive was swapped out  and the train was sent back on its way. Many fire departments assisted Baden. The locomotive and two freight cars  were covered in oil and they were moved to the Conway rail  yard and taken off line.