CSX Kentucky derailment shows threat of new rail catastrophes
Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023![Workers were forced to evacuate Livingston, Kentucky, when CSX freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed Nov. 22. Inset, Evelyn Scalf, showing map of derailment area. Scalf told the Militant she and her family had to organize their own evacuation and were denied financial assistance by rail bosses.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CSX-Kentucky_8746-300x210.jpg)
LIVINGSTON, Ky. — Residents in this central Kentucky town of 200 were told to evacuate Nov. 22 after 16 cars on a CSX freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed just north of here. Two of the cars were transporting molten…