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Amtrak’s Cardinal Back On Schedule After CSX Derailment

A yellow piece of construction machinery pushes a stack of prefabricated track panels down a railroad track under an overcast sky.
A contract worker pushes a stack of prefabricated track panels toward the site of a CSX derailment.
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A weekend derailment blocked Amtrak’s Cardinal from operating Sunday, but the trains are back on schedule.

The Cardinal will operate in both directions on Wednesday after CSX repaired its track through St. Albans, according to Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari.

Amtrak canceled its Cardinal in both directions Sunday after a CSX coal train derailed late Saturday.

Train 50, which departed Chicago eastbound on Saturday, terminated in Huntington on Sunday.

Westbound train 51 out of New York was canceled. 

The Cardinal stops in Huntington, Charleston, Montgomery, the New River Gorge and White Sulphur Springs. The trains operate Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Crews worked through Sunday to clean up spilled coal and to repair the track. 

Austin Staton, a CSX spokesman, said 12 cars derailed. One main track reopened early Monday, he said, and the other was expected to reopen by Monday afternoon.