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"Bomb Trains" threaten America's safety, according to report

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"Bomb Trains" threaten America's safety, according to report
Posted by Convicted One on Sunday, December 13, 2015 1:10 PM
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Posted by Convicted One on Sunday, December 13, 2015 1:16 PM

Which inspires a calculated thought:  Certain modern carriers are notorious for neglect of their plant.  If a "bomb train" happened to have  a mishap on a neglected bridge belonging to a carrier having such a reputation, and the incident is proven as resulting from deterioration, shouldn't that carrier be held criminally liable?

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Posted by Convicted One on Sunday, December 13, 2015 1:27 PM
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Posted by Buslist on Sunday, December 13, 2015 1:38 PM

Convicted One

Which inspires a calculated thought:  Certain modern carriers are notorious for neglect of their plant.  If a "bomb train" happened to have  a mishap on a neglected bridge belonging to a carrier having such a reputation, and the incident is proven as resulting from deterioration, shouldn't that carrier be held criminally liable?

 

Since said "neglectful" carrier is required by FRA regulation to perform certain inspection and maintenance practices it would be almost impossible to say they are neglectful, and if they were is FRA criminally responsible for not ensuring complance?

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=6251b7103fbaf569f3fc83c027572e3f&mc=true&node=pt49.4.237&rgn=div5

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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, December 13, 2015 2:13 PM

Get a copy of the Emergency Response Guide and spend an hour or two roadside - or better yet, downtown.  

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, December 13, 2015 2:19 PM

SOS DD

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Posted by Convicted One on Sunday, December 13, 2015 2:21 PM

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and if they were is FRA criminally responsible for not ensuring complance?

Sounds like a "non-waiver" issue to me.

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Posted by CShaveRR on Sunday, December 13, 2015 2:46 PM

Well, by all means, let's stop all trains at the borders and turn them back, because some of them are known derailers and blower-uppers.

More journalistic fear-mongering.

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, December 13, 2015 4:42 PM

What about all those BOMB TRUCKS that drive by most people's houses, driven by log book faking drivers that are barely awake at the wheel popping Amphetamines like they are candy.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Sunday, December 13, 2015 4:44 PM

CShaveRR
More journalistic fear-mongering.

Precisely.

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Posted by n012944 on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:06 PM

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Run for the hills.....

 

 

sigh.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:14 PM

The tracks are a mile away.  The interstate is a half mile away.  The airplanes on landing approach are about 500 feet away.  A city street runs right past my front yard.  Gas and electric lines run under my lawn right up to the house!  I think the trains are the least of my worries.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:21 PM

        If eel like this quote from the article pretty much suggets that most of the article is not to be taken as serious, intelligent journalism.

"While Riverkeeper inspectors may not be engineers, the railroad owners inspecting their own bridges may not be much better."

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:32 PM

Don't forget that for most Americans, cities and other municipalities pump Di-Hydrogen MonOxide directly into their homes!  People DIE if they breath this stuff!

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Posted by garyla on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:35 PM

CShaveRR


More journalistic fear-mongering. 

Indeed.

As you read the article, you can almost hear the author hyperventilating!

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Posted by mudchicken on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:36 PM

BaltACD

What about all those BOMB TRUCKS that drive by most people's houses, driven by log book faking drivers that are barely awake at the wheel popping Amphetamines like they are candy.

 

What? Like the suicide fuel trucker that attacked the Portland and Western today in Portland, OR? Gee downplay that, doesn't fit the warped agenda.

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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:38 PM

I don't know which is worse, that or Hydro-oxic acid. I believe that hydrogen hydroxide is just as bad. Perhaps our investigative journalists should look into this matter also?

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:52 PM

n012944

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Run for the hills.....

sigh.

Watch out for dihydrogen monoxide poisoning!

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Posted by rrnut282 on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:55 PM

Cars kill more people in a year than guns, train wrecks, and pipeline disasters in their lifetimes (almost combined).  Yet the roar from the fear mongerers to ban cars  is deafening. 

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Posted by rrnut282 on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:59 PM

Semper Vaporo
Don't forget that for most Americans, cities and other municipalities pump Di-Hydrogen MonOxide directly into their homes!  People DIE if they breath this stuff!

Don't worry, the vigilant politicians in Kalifornication tried to enact legislation to protect their citizens from that "bad chemical".    Hooray we're saved!  lol

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Posted by jeffhergert on Sunday, December 13, 2015 7:14 PM

I just glanced at it, but it seems to me to be a report from a biased news media outlet using observations from biased organizations having the same agenda.  After getting that impression, I stopped reading. 

Btw, we sometimes call the loaded ethanol trains, "rolling bombs" at work.  I just had one last trip out.

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, December 13, 2015 7:54 PM

BaltACD

What about all those BOMB TRUCKS that drive by most people's houses, driven by log book faking drivers that are barely awake at the wheel popping Amphetamines like they are candy.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/deadly-truck-crash-causes-smoky-portland-railroad-yard-194507867.html

 

Bomb truck endangers railroad tankers.

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Posted by NorthWest on Sunday, December 13, 2015 8:35 PM

The article is curious in that it continually ignores the railroad renesaince. Infrustructure is in the best condition it has been in decades.

Besides the CP incident caused by flooding undermining a bridge, I can't think of any bridge-caused incidents involving flamable liquids.

They lose all credability when they claim that the bridge the FRA auditor inspected was still unsafe.

Meanwhile in Australia, the Hawkesbury River Bridge pier still hasn't been fixed...

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Posted by ricktrains4824 on Sunday, December 13, 2015 10:26 PM

I'm more concerned about the idiot truck drivers right outside my house.... Trains are way safer!

And, I am willing to bet this article is written by the same groundbreaking reporter that pointed out that the latest thing that California has labeled "Known to cause cancer" is being alive.

After all, dead people do not get cancer..... 

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Sunday, December 13, 2015 11:13 PM

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Posted by ORNHOO on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:15 AM
More on that "Bomb Truck" in Portland: www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/12/firefighters_battling_large_in.html#incart_big_photo
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Posted by Euclid on Monday, December 14, 2015 8:53 AM
They may be fearmongering, but it has a larger purpose than just the satisfaction of spreading alarm.  They strongly oppose the use of oil.  So criticizing oil trains is made to order for them. 
 
They were loud and strong in warning of the dire consequences of oil trains wrecking and killing people as soon as oil trains ramped up for Bakken.  We had a thread on it here quoting from those groups just a couple days prior to the Lac Megantic wreck.  They must have felt a great sense of validation from the Lac Megantic wreck.   But their ultimate concern is not the safety of people and water.  It is about the safety of the climate.  It is about carbon dioxide.
 
For more perspective, here is the Dot-111 Reader:

http://dot111.info/

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Posted by schlimm on Monday, December 14, 2015 10:37 AM

The article engages in fear-mongering and some unneeded exaggerations.  However, there are many incontrovertible facts, which exaggerated ridicule does nothing to contradict.  Reasoned dialogue is, unfortunately, in short supply these days.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Monday, December 14, 2015 10:49 AM

schlimm
Reasoned dialogue is, unfortunately, in short supply these days.

Especially when those on the left keep saying "our way or no way".

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Posted by schlimm on Monday, December 14, 2015 10:59 AM

True.  There is too much of that on right and left, whether about climate or other issues.

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