Norfolk Southern freight train derails in Pennsylvania pushing carriages into river just days after it was revealed CEO got 37 percent pay rise to $13.4 MILLION and one year after East Palestine railway disaster

A Norfolk Southern freight train has gone off its tracks and into a river in Pennsylvania.

The derailment occurred Saturday morning near the 2200 block of Riverside Drive in Lower Saucon Township.

No injuries have been reported yet, WFMZ reports.

Officers suspect that three cars left the track and possibly overturned.

Dramatic footage shows the locomotive partially submerged in the Lehigh River.

A Norfolk Southern freight train has gone off its tracks and into a river in Pennsylvania

The derailment occurred Saturday morning near the 2200 block of Riverside Drive in Lower Saucon Township

It comes just days after it emerged that Norfolk Southern CEO Alan H. Shaw received a 37 percent pay increase last year, the same year his company was involved in another disastrous environmental derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Shaw’s total compensation in 2023 was a whopping $13.4 million.

Meanwhile, some residents of eastern Palestine have yet to return to their homes after thousands were forced to flee when the derailment released thousands of liters of toxic chemicals into the atmosphere.

Rivers were polluted and hundreds of local residents complained of poor health.

The train was carrying 700,000 pounds of vinyl chloride when 53 carriages derailed on February 3, 2023.

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