JACKSON: Earlier this week we received reports of a freight train derailing here in Ocean County. These are the train tracks that run along Faraday in Jackson, on the Lakewood border. This train was carrying supplies when it struck a damaged portion of railroad track, and became derailed.

Witnesses tell OCSN that a train was backing up, and there was a section of rail missing. The train backed up too far and tipped over- no threat to the public. The railroad company is supposed to be coming with a crane soon to get it back on the tracks. These train track are seldom used, and easily haven’t been used in 5 years according to people who are nearby.