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This derailment will raise is this question:  Why can’t tank cars be built to withstand a derailment without rupturing?    <a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACF1B4.pdf">http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACF1B4.pdf</a> Quote from the link:     The NTSB noted that more than half of the nation’s 60,000 railroad tank cars that carry hazardous materials pre-date the 1989 standards and therefore were not designed to withstand predictable levels of stress and are more likely to break open after derailing. In particular, the NTSB found that pre-1989 cars constructed from “non-normalized,” or weaker, steel, some of which are expected to remain in use until 2038, pose a much higher risk than post-1989 cars.
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