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1OO UNIT ETHANOL TANKER TRAIN

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Posted by J. Edgar on Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:23 PM
 J. Edgar wrote:

 

 

 bio-desiel is where its at.....100 car unit train of used french-fry oil.....safe for everybody

 

 *diesel...........sorry

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Posted by J. Edgar on Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:22 PM

 

 

 bio-desiel is where its at.....100 car unit train of used french-fry oil.....safe for everybody

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:17 PM
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WHAT IF A 100 ETHANOL LOADED TANKER TRAIN DERAILED GOING 50 MPH?? and a dozen or so derailed,and caught fire and exploded ........would this cause a chain reaction and all hell break loose or are their safeguards to keep this from hapening?? THERE IS GOING TO BE THOUSANDS OF THESE TANKERS ON RAILS WHEN THE NEW 100 PLANTS COME ON LINE NEXT YEAR PRODUCING  HIGH FLAMIBLE GASSES...REAL SCARREY HARRYPirate [oX)]

Too bad we have all this endorsement of ethanol while continuing to demonize the less expensive (and more plentiful) coal-to-liquids fuels.  Synthetic diesel at least can move by pipeline, unlike ethanol.  And pipelines don't derail!

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Posted by jeaton on Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:12 PM
I would have more concerns about LPG.  One car of that stuff going makes several cars of ethanol look like a campfire.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:09 PM
NS derailed an ethanol train outside of Pittsburgh a couple of months ago. A few of the cars caught fire and they just let them burn themselves out.
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:49 PM
     I seem to recall DM&E derailing an ethanol train a couple of years ago(?) around Lake Benton, MN., and that wasn't the end of the world as we know it.

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Posted by gabe on Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:21 PM

Isn't there a 40 mph restriction for hazardous chemicals, such as ethonol?

Also, there was a recent derailment of an NS unit ethenol train.  Although 9 cars did catch fire, the whole train did not go.

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1OO UNIT ETHANOL TANKER TRAIN
Posted by chicagorails on Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:10 PM

WHAT IF A 100 ETHANOL LOADED TANKER TRAIN DERAILED GOING 50 MPH?? and a dozen or so derailed,and caught fire and exploded ........would this cause a chain reaction and all hell break loose or are their safeguards to keep this from hapening?? THERE IS GOING TO BE THOUSANDS OF THESE TANKERS ON RAILS WHEN THE NEW 100 PLANTS COME ON LINE NEXT YEAR PRODUCING  HIGH FLAMIBLE GASSES...REAL SCARREY HARRYPirate [oX)]

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