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Waverly, Tennessee Tank Car Explosion

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Posted by desertdog on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 12:14 PM

The accident report is filed here: http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/railroad.aspx

 

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 11:23 AM

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I was looking for information on the 1978 tank car explosion that occured in Waverly, Tennessee on the L&N and was hoping to find out which issues of Trains from that year would have covered it. 

If you're looking for other information than a Trains article specifically, search "BLEVE Waverly" and you'll get a pretty good assortment.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 10:06 AM

TrainPuppy-2016

I was looking for information on the 1978 tank car explosion that occured in Waverly, Tennessee on the L&N and was hoping to find out which issues of Trains from that year would have covered it.

 

AS a place to start looking for your information:  In 2010 there was a Thread her titled Kingman BLEVE" linked @ http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/168817/1853980.aspx#1853980

If you drill down in that link you'll find a link to the 1978 L&N Train Wreck at Waverly,Tn, and the wreckage it caused in the community.

Hope this will help.

 

 


 

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Waverly, Tennessee Tank Car Explosion
Posted by TrainPuppy-2016 on Monday, January 25, 2016 6:00 PM

I was looking for information on the 1978 tank car explosion that occured in Waverly, Tennessee on the L&N and was hoping to find out which issues of Trains from that year would have covered it.

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