Workers plan to drag cars from the river today.
A contractor hired by Conrail was expected today to drag out four railroad cars that plunged from the Rockville Bridge into the Susquehanna River after a derailment Tuesday. Workers from Texas-based Hulcher Services intended to drive two cranes across the riverbed and attach them to the cars. Plans called for the cranes to drag each car about a half-mile to Miller's landing, located south of the bridge, along Front Street on the East Shore. The cranes will slosh through water ranging from three to four feet in depth, said Susan Frank of the state Department of Environmental Resources, which gave Conrail verbal permission to begin the work. That stretch of the Susquehanna contains pockets of water up to nine feet deep, Ms. Frank said.