Traffic in Warsaw was snarled for about two hours Wednesday night when a train struck an unoccupied pickup truck.

Warsaw Police were called at about 7:45 p.m. to the Norfolk Southern north-south train tracks along Hickory Street near Center Street. It was there where a northbound train struck an unoccupied parked pickup truck that had reportedly run out of gas and was parked too close to the tracks.

The owner of the truck had gone to the nearby gas station at Center and Detroit and told police when he left the vehicle there was no sign of a train and he didn’t think he was parked too close to the tracks.

The Red 2000 Nissan Frontier pickup, owned by Antonio Demorais of South Lyon, Mich., sustained significant disabling damage.

The Norfolk Southern train was traveling at approximately 24 mph at the time of the impact. The two-engine, 123-car train stopped just north of Fort Wayne Street and blocked all crossings south for almost two hours causing significant traffic problems. The train was moved as soon as the investigation and inspection of the train was complete.

All of the train warning devices and crossing signals were working properly and the train did not derail.