ONEIDA - CSX Transportation has agreed to pay the full cost of cleaning up the site where one of its trains derailed in March, a CSX official said Thursday.

The Florida-based carrier will pay $114,000, the full cost of reimbursement to the City of Oneida, said CSX spokesman Gary Sease.

The company had originally offered $90,000, according to Oneida Mayor Leo Matzke.

But Sease said the company agreed to full restitution because of the severe disruptions caused by the accident, which forced the evacuation of thousands of residents when some of the railcars caught fire.

The 80-car freight train was traveling east from Buffalo to the Albany area March 12 when 28 cars jumped the tracks. At least five tanker cars - two carrying liquid propane, two loaded with liquid petroleum and one containing the solvent toluene - caught fire or exploded in the wreck.

The cause of the accident is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Railroad Administration. Railroad union officials have said it's likely that uneven tracks caused the cars to become off-balance and derail.