Device found on Bechtelsville street was model train
10/30/2013
BECHTELSVILLE, Pa. -- A state police bomb squad determined that a suspicious device found this morning on a street near Bechtelsville was a model train locomotive that apparently fell from a truck and was flattened by other vehicles.
A Colebrookdale Township police officer spotted the device and some batteries about 9 a.m. in the middle of Mill Street between South Main Street and Route 100 in Washington Township, near the Colebrookdale line, said Trooper David C. Beohm, a state police spokesman.
The officer called for state police, who cover Washington Township. Troopers called their bomb squad. A state police fire marshal and a agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also investigated.
Mill Street has been reopened.
Beohm said it appeared to be a larger size locomotive from a model train set. Troopers haven’t identified who it belonged to.
