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I seriously doubt that international terrorists would attempt a derailment in rural Mississippi, too isolated, and not enough media coverage from New York, etc. Now, what is more likely is some local crazies. As several have noted in earlier posts, we had a couple teens derailed a mainline freight here west of New Orleans in the 1970s, by opening a switch for a spur and the freight went into it at about 60 mph. The track is on a 15 foot high embankment, and the derailed cars nearly rolled onto some homes located only about 50-60 feet off the right of way. I lived about a mile away and it was the strangest crash I ever heard.
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