WASHINGTON –A CSX freight train derailed near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station Sunday morning, leaving several cars overturned and a hazardous leak coming from at least one car, according to city officials.
Upwards of 10 cars derailed from a train bound for Hamlet, North Carolina, from Cumberland, Maryland, about 6:40 a.m......
http://wtop.com/dc/2016/05/csx-train-derails-in-northeast-d-c-possible-hazardous-leak/
Cue the NIMBY's (in the press and public - not here).
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If your going to have a train wreck don't do it in Washington, DC on a slow news day in a city that wants to make you go away.
Sodium hydroxide needs to be handled with care. One of the main uses is in hand soaps. It's the ingredient in soap that makes your hands slippery.
UN1823 PG II, MSDS:
http://www.certified-lye.com/MSDS-Lye.pdf
narig01 If your going to have a train wreck don't do it in Washington, DC on a slow news day in a city that wants to make you go away. Sodium hydroxide needs to be handled with care. One of the main uses is in hand soaps. It's the ingredient in soap that makes your hands slippery. UN1823 PG II, MSDS: http://www.certified-lye.com/MSDS-Lye.pdf
Maybe in tank car size quantities it could be used to clean up DC politics.
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BaltACD narig01 If your going to have a train wreck don't do it in Washington, DC on a slow news day in a city that wants to make you go away. Sodium hydroxide needs to be handled with care. One of the main uses is in hand soaps. It's the ingredient in soap that makes your hands slippery. UN1823 PG II, MSDS: http://www.certified-lye.com/MSDS-Lye.pdf Maybe in tank car size quantities it could be used to clean up DC politics.
Tom
Sodium Hydroxide? Ain't that also called "Lye"... seems to me that was a shipment directly TO Washington DC... where else would all them thar politicians come up with their LIEs.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
ACYThere's not enough of it in the known world.
Especially once we get done using what we need in Albany....
Now, back to your regularly scheduled train wreck thread....
So why do NIMBY's like to hate trains again? And que the media miss reporting in 3 2 1
wilmette2210 So why do NIMBY's like to hate trains again? And que the media miss reporting in 3 2 1
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narig01If your going to have a train wreck don't do it in Washington, DC on a slow news day in a city that wants to make you go away.
This is looking like a boo-boo even "The Wreck Lady"* couldn't sugarcoat her way through.
*The original female Media Relations Spokesperson for the CPR in the Alberta region in the early '80's.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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Does anybody know how this affected operation of Amtrak 29/30, the Capitol Limited, today?
How about tomorrow, same question?
CSX P030-01 did not make DC, P030 has departed Chicago on the 1st and will become P030-02 departing Pittsburgh. P029-01 did not operate from DC.
I have no idea when track will be restored but will throw out 24/36 hours from the happening.
Semper Vaporo Sodium Hydroxide? Ain't that also called "Lye"... seems to me that was a shipment directly TO Washington DC... where else would all them thar politicians come up with their LIEs.
A carload of lies taken to DC? Isn't that like coals to Newcastle?
Not all hazardous materials are shipped in tank cars. Sodium hydroxide would be shipped in a covered hopper since it is a solid and it reacts pretty nastily with water, as anybody who used "Drano" to unclog a sink would know.
Forgive me for being off topic, but since this train was bound for Hamlet, I wonder how busy is Hamlet, as well as the former Seaboard lines that converge there. When I saw this area 35 years ago, it still had a respectable amount of traffic passing through or ending there.
Careful now. Where do you think these objectionable politicians come *from*?!
In all seriousness, some of the spilled material is truly hazardous, and I don't think anybody on this forum (or anywhere else) would want this dumped in such quantities near their home.
Appears service restoration has been delayed by transfering the HAZMAT load, which was completed at 1730 today according to the media. P029 & P030 will bus passengers between Pittsburgh and Washington.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-csx-16-cars-involved-derailment-dc-131835498.html?ref=gs
Paul, the majority (by far) of sodium hydroxide is transported in liquid form, in tank cars (also known as caustic soda).
Carl
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CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Love how they say it was a massive 175 car train, but compared to the 300 plus car trains CSX has been running this one is a baby train.
rockymidlandrr Love how they say it was a massive 175 car train, but compared to the 300 plus car trains CSX has been running this one is a baby train.
Baby train - 15K tons and 2.12 mile long
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