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Derailed train linked to chemical in sewers

A flammable chemical that mysteriously appeared in Inner Harbor sewers - and may have been the cause of a manhole cover explosion Aug. 11 - came from the CSX Corp. train that derailed and caught fire three weeks earlier, the state said yesterday.

By Jeff Barker

September 8, 2001

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