It was the latest in a long-running span of jammed tractor-trailers at railroad underpasses on Front and Clinton streets in the city's First Ward.
This time, the truck was traveling south into downtown when it got snagged on the second of two railroad trestles on Front Street, near the Broome County Department of Health.
The clearance on both underpasses of the Norfolk Southern on Front Street is posted at 12 feet, 1 inch. Another railroad underpass on Clinton Street can also be a sticky situation for truckers. During a three-year period in the mid-2000s, city officials said 53 trucks smashed into the bridges on Clinton and Front streets.
The trailer on Wednesday was carrying unidentified minerals in oversized white sacks, which were transferred into another trailer, operated by Don Snow Trucking of Port Crane, and removed from the scene.
The cargo was not posted as being hazardous.
When contacted at its headquarters, North Star Ranch would not identify the cargo or the driver and said it had no comment about the crash. Its Web site describes the company as a contract carrier.
The jammed trailer was removed by Dick's Garage of Binghamton.
Traffic flowed as usual in both directions on Clinton Street, but only moved north on Front Street out of downtown. Binghamton police detoured southbound traffic off Front Street before the Health Department parking lot.