"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
11/14/2020 at 08:29 • Filed to: trainlopnik
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"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
11/14/2020 at 08:29 • Filed to: trainlopnik | 5
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No, literally. On October 11 there was a train derailment about 2 miles from our house. Part of the track’s roadbed had been washed away by heavy rains. The crash resulted in a large fuel spill, ethanol I think, from several tanker cars. No one was killed, but one of our town police officers did a great job rescuing the trains crew.
Yesterday I took my daughter down to the adjacent park to see what we could see. There are still a good number of mangled train cars there. Bulk carriers and tanker cars. A couple of cars look like a dog chewed them up. Just a mess. They were toward the front of the train based on location.
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> f86sabre
11/14/2020 at 08:46 |
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ouch. 2020 strikes again on Friday the 13th.
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f86sabre
> pip bip - choose Corrour
11/14/2020 at 08:49 |
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Well, it was October, but it does add to the level of craziness.
jminer
> f86sabre
11/14/2020 at 11:49 |
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Oof - these are terrifying. I grew up in a railroad town and we’d have a derailment about once a year. The sheer carnage that amount of kinetic energy is capable of inflicting is something else.
Glad noone does though
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jminer
> jminer
11/14/2020 at 12:21 |
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No one died