Highway 75 closed into Saturday

WBTV has an article up indicating Highway 75 could be closed through Saturday afternoon.

WAXHAW, NC (WBTV) - Waxhaw's town manager says it could be Saturday afternoon before a section of Highway 75 just west of downtown reopens.

Also of note, early suspicions on the cause of the derailment are the heat. Although apparently it's standard operating procedure to have a camera attached to the locomotive, which may help determine more specifically what caused the derailment.

A CSX rail official said the derailment may have been caused by the heat affecting the tracks.

CSX says The locomotive pulling the trains had a camera attached to it.

"We'll be able to see exactly what the locomotive engineer saw before the train derailed," said Harry Hopes, manager of hazardous materials with CSX out of Charlotte .

The folks in Magnolia Ridge are apparently having to park in the Captain's Galley plaza until Highway 75 reopens. According to my source, the hazmat team has made the front of that neighborhood their headquarters.