CHARLOTTE — Police are investigating following a suspicious incident on a railway line in Charlotte yesterday.
Authorities say they were notified by Vermont Rail System of a possible grenade located in a bird house adjacent to a path maintained for railroad service vehicles near the railway line in the area of the railroad station house at Ferry Road at around 10:30 a.m.
For safety purposes, train traffic, yesterday consisting of freight train traffic only, was temporarily suspended.
Troopers responded to the scene and found an item in a bird house shaped similar to the body of a hand grenade.
Further assessment by the troopers and Bomb Squad personnel found the item did not contain the fusing system of a hand grenade, and the body was constructed of plastic.
Police say the item was preliminarily identified as the remains of a consumer-grade firework.
It appears the firework was expended, and the remnants were collected for disposal at a later occasion.
With the incident resolved, train service resumed after having been suspended for about two hours.
