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CLOSE The cause of the landslide was still being determined Monday. Video by Jeff Miller / The Enquirer/Jeff Miller/The Cincinnati Enquirer

The train’s engine was on a bridge crossing over the River Neches and had been traveling more than 20 mph through downtown Cincinnati, officials said.

It was stopped at the bridge as the driver and another passenger pulled over and called for help. The train’s locomotive was crushed by the underbelly of a mountain, killing both passengers and the locomotive operator.

The death toll for the train, which was owned by NHTSA, was at least 60.

As of late Monday afternoon, the remains of the locomotive were scattered on a hillside. The wreckage was visible from Interstate 75 east along the bridge.

Cincinnati has been without electricity since the weekend. As of early Monday morning, the city was still without power.

The scene was described by emergency responders, and the cause was still under investigation.

CLOSE Police Chief James L. Lippert spoke Monday on the scene of the deadly train derailment in Cincinnati on Mond일산안마ay, May 18, 2017. The Cincinnati Enquirer/Jeff Miller

Cincinnati Fire Chief Michael Schubert said crews had cleared the surrounding area but that “there are still pieces of rail that were not fully recovered.”

Schubert said firefighters were going door-to-door Sunday evening to survey the area but they were met with residents “who did not want to talk,” The Enquirer’s Jeff Miller reported on Monday afternoon.

The Cincinnati Fire Department said that while debris from the locomotive and of the building on the edge of the collapse area was contained to an area about 500 feet to the east of the city’s Centra제천출장마사지l West End neighborhood, there was an “undescribed” amount of debris from the train’s upper deck where the locomotive came loose from. The department had not been able to find an exact location for that pile.

The train’s “passenger stairway” appeared to be intact, with a metal railing.

CLOSE Cincinnati’s CWD officials have just completed the scene of a fatal김해출장안마 derailment of a CTS train. Jeff Miller, The Cincinnati Enquirer

“The cause and manner of the explosion was still being investigated,” NHTSA Director John O’Neill said.

The locomotive came to rest about three-quarters of the way down a hill, with its left engin