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CHARLES CITY — Can a name be destiny? In the case of DeRailed, a bar at 1130 N. Grand Ave., it appears so.

A Canadian Pacific railroad car tipped over on the adjacent tracks early Tuesday and crushed a corner of the metal storage shed at the back of the bar. Chief Hugh Anderson of the Charles City Police Department said the derailment occurred about 4 a.m. while crews were moving cars and changing hook-ups.

“Kind of ironic that it derailed,” said Lori Eckenrod of Charles City, as she sat at the bar in DeRailed shortly before noon. “Kind of been the talk of the town and everywhere else, from what I heard.” Her husband, Tom, is one of four co-owners of the bar.“He got called at 4:15 in the morning,” she said. “No one really knows what happened.”

Eckenrod added, “At least it happened at the end of the bar. That’s all storage.”

Anderson was alerted by a patrol officer that a train car had derailed into DeRailed. “It’s not every day you get to say that,” the police chief quipped.

He said it appeared the track separated, and a grain car rolled into the bar caving in the back corner. The owner estimated damage at $10,000. No one was in the bar and no injuries were reported.