A freight train was damaged in a fire that erupted as the freighter was moving through a Jurupa Valley intersection, but the blaze did not spread to surrounding property, officials said Thursday.
A rash of train derailments, one of them resulting in a significant public health and environmental threat, do not reflect an overall breakdown in railroad safety, including along the network of railway lines that run through the Riverside metropolitan area, officials from two major rail operators insisted Friday.
