Another upside down train

[Ranger99]

Looks like another train has
left the tracks, this one in West
Virginia. Not many details that
the "news " people knew about.
I heard something about debris
on the tracks and sabotage.
I guess there'll be more of the
story later on today and tonight.

Who knows.  . . . 

[ironglow]

  This one in Tulsa today.  Great on-the-spot video.

   ..But if I were that driver, especially if I had family along..I would have gotten out of there before that train
     stopped rolling.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re9H9G6AtrA

[ironglow]

...And do not forget, it is the lefties who shut down comparatively safe pipelines, forcing such cargo onto
    trains..example... Keystone.

[Dixie-Dude]

Liquid fuels are better transported in pipelines.  Trains derail and cause much more damage. 

[DDZ]

Liquid fuels are better transported in pipelines.  Trains derail and cause much more damage.

Right! It does not take someone with a great or genius mind to know that. So why has construction of pipelines been stopped? In 2020 Dominion Energy and Duke had to abandon the Construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline that would have supplied the eastern part of the country with natural gas needs. After years of planning and billions of dollars spent the environmentalists were able cause a couple of very costly delays, and eventually have Dominion Energy stop the construction of it. even after many miles of pipe were put in the ground.     

[Dee]

The only difference between this train derailment and every other of the 1700+ other derailment a year is this one involved a toxic mixture of chemicals loaded in tankers too close to one  another.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/train-derailments-per-year-usa-b2294966.html

[oldandslow]

Naw, it has to be fake news. Holtec, the company that wants to build the "temporary" radioactive waste storage facility southwest of here and the NRC keep telling us how "safe" rail transportation is.

Note to Dee: you are downwind of where this crap will blow to if there is an accident too. I am just a lot closer so I'll start glowing before you do. 

The thing is, why not just leave it where it has been all these years and hasn't caused a problem? Of course the answer is simple. I don't want in my back yard but in yours even if you had nothing to do with it in the first place and we have the votes to get it moved..

[Dee]

We don't have a train track within 15 miles of where I live, but we do have natural gas storage, and 3 refineries within 10 miles.

[Graybeard]

Here is one today in Calhoun County, Alabama which is the county I live in:

https://calhounjournal.com/train-derailment-in-calhoun-county/

[Graybeard]

And here is a News Max article on the local to me train wreck.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/norfolk-southern-derailment-alabama/2023/03/09/id/1111730/

[oldandslow]

We don't have a train track within 15 miles of where I live, but we do have natural gas storage, and 3 refineries within 10 miles.

I meant when they get the stuff in place over here about the chance of a leak. The leak plume if there is one will head to the northeast. A rail line ends about 5 miles south of town making it close to 10 from me but they will have nothing to do with transporting it. It's a little podunk company that makes a large part of it's money from rail car storage. Almost all of their shipping stops at Hobbs.

[Dee]

We don't have a train track within 15 miles of where I live, but we do have natural gas storage, and 3 refineries within 10 miles.

I meant when they get the stuff in place over here about the chance of a leak. The leak plume if there is one will head to the northeast. A rail line ends about 5 miles south of town making it close to 10 from me but they will have nothing to do with transporting it. It's a little podunk company that makes a large part of it's money from rail car storage. Almost all of their shipping stops at Hobbs.

Yep! Our wind is out of the southwest in the summer, and the northwest in the winter, so if it happens in the summer, you'll beat me to the reaper.