WASHINGTON July 17 (Xinhua) -- A freight train derailed near Philadelphia, the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania on Monday morning, prompting precautionary evacuations, authorities said.
The 40-car train derailed around 16 cars on Norfolk Southern tracks near the intersection of Joshua and Flourtown Road in Whitemarsh Township in Montgomery County at around 4:50 a.m. local time, according to the train's owner, CSX Corporation, one of the nation's leading transportation suppliers.
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