The rear car of a New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway train crossing the 405-foot bridge where Overpeck Creek meets the Hackensack River tumbled down in the collapse just before 8:30 a.m.
No one was inside, responders said.
Work had begun just last week to replace the roadbed approaching the bridge from the NYS&W yard.
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