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As night fell in Jackson, the cleanup continued.
Considering everything that happened Wednesday, crews say cleanup is going pretty smoothly.
Sgt. Steve Stowe, Blackman Leoni Public Safety: "We expected this to go on a couple days when we first got here because, I mean, we don't get derailments on a regular basis-- but then when we started talking to some of the crews that were coming on they expected it to move pretty quickly and it did."
But its not just broken glass and crushed metal.
There was about 3 thousand gallons of diesel fuel on board and its estimated about 50 gallons made it onto the ground.
Sgt. Stowe: "The environmental cleaup will go on into the early hours of the morning just because they have to remove a lot of the soil-- put fresh dirt back in and put some more gravel along the tracks."
But in terms of the emegency response, those involved say it all went as planned.
Sgt. Stowe: "When the first call come out we kinda set everything, we had a mass casuality trailer and we were expecting to have some pretty significant injuries."
Brian Karhoff, Lead Station Agent: "Its been busy and just constant go go go, making arragements, getting busses lined up, accomodating passengers, making sure everybody was ok and headed for their right destination."
While fixing the tracks was the main priority, removing the train cars is likely to take days, that's why crews say they'll work overnight and into Thursday morning.
