A couple of downtown Acworth rail crossings were blocked early Wednesday after a train struck a trailer loaded with furniture.
The heavy duty pickup truck pulling the trailer cleared the tracks at the School Street crossing near Main Street, but the fifth-wheel trailer got stuck on the tracks and was hit by a northbound CSX freight train just after 3:30 a.m., according to Acworth police spokesman Mark Cheatham.
The train dragged the trailer about a half-mile down the tracks, Cheatham told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
No injuries were reported.
Cheatham said trailers are prohibited from crossing the tracks on School Street, and the driver of the truck, 29-year-old Richard A. Brown of Summerfield, Fla., was cited for failure to obey railroad grade crossing.
The School Street and Lemon Street crossings in downtown Acworth were closed most of the morning, but both had reopened by early afternoon, according to Cheatham.
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