Train derailment, and a bit of luck, in Casselton

[Euclid]

 

Bitter cold weather causes rails to break.  It seems like I often hear of a derailment out in western Minnesota or North Dakota every time we have a cold snap, and the news often correlates a derailment with the cold weather.  For the last week or more, Minnesota has been running way below normal temperatures for November.  I assume that this cold snap is spread across the whole northern plains, so I would say that the probability for derailments is relatively high right now.  So there may be more shoes to drop.

 

[Paul of Covington]

   FTA:

'Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., said in a statement Friday that luck wasn’t good enough.

“We saw what happened in Casselton almost a year ago and yesterday’s incident is disappointing,” she said.'

    I'm sure she didn't mean it that way, but it kinda sounds like she's disappointed that it didn't blow up.

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[Euclid]

That certainly does seem like a bit of coincidence.  Not only was it in nearly the same spot as last year’s Casselton wreck, but it also involved a train derailing first and then fouling the other track in front of the oil train that just happened to be approaching when the first train derailed.  That alone is long odds. 

[schlimm]

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