MUKILTEO, Wash. (AP) — A mudslide has hit railroad tracks again near Mukilteo.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesman Gus Melonas says a slide at 11:45 a.m. Friday covered both sets of mainline tracks. Equipment was already at the scene from multiple slides this rainy season, and the tracks have reopened to freight traffic.
The tracks are closed to passenger trains for a 48-hour safety moratorium.
The tracks have been hit by dozens of slides in the past several months along a stretch where they run along Puget Sound at the base of a bluff.
