Train Derailment in Shelby County Kills CSX Employee

By: Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News

December 15, 2025

CALERA, Ala. State and federal authorities are investigating after the death of a Mountain Brook man was killed in a train derailment on Saturday.

Emergency 911 calls notified authorities that there had been a CSX train derailment in Calera at a railroad crossing on County Road 22.

Calera Police Department, EMS and Calera Fire responded to the train derailment

Sadly, the Shelby County Coroner said a CSX employee, identified as 52-year-old Charles Harrison was killed in the wreck.

Authorities said the railroad crossing will be closed for an undetermined amount of time while the investigation and cleanup are ongoing. The investigation is being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

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