A tractor-trailer collided with a train in Henry County early Tuesday morning, spilling thousands of beer cans, bottles and kegs all over the area.
The crash happened on Old Griffin Road and Griffin Street.
Channel 2′s Steve Gehlbach said when he arrived at the scene, beer was spread down the railroad tracks for more than a third of a mile.
Wreckers quickly cleared the tracks so the train could move, but it’s taken hours and some heavy machinery to clean up all the spilled beer.
Gehlbach confirmed the truck driver is expected to be OK.
“Each down one side and roll the kegs into the buckets, pick up all the debris as we go. But a long process with all those individual cans, take forever to pick up. Go down the tracks to next intersection from this one, pick it all up, into the containers and all out of here,” said Thomas Bartless from Swanson Towing.
Gehlbach said he did hear about some “self-salvaging” going on where people just pulled up and started loading up some cases of beer before it got thrown out.
But what’s left on the ground will end up in a landfill.
The train was blocking the tracks that go through the downtown McDonough area, but it began moving again around 5:30 a.m. The crash caused traffic backups just off Highway 42.