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I'll find some updated news and continue to post in this thread.

1 posted on 10/21/2013 5:30:13 AM PDT by thackney
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Two rail cars still burning at Gainford derailment site
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/rail+cars+still+burning+Gainford+derailment+site+video/9058265/story.html
OCTOBER 20, 2013

Two propane-filled CN train cars continued to burn Sunday night, nearly two days after an explosive derailment west of Edmonton.

Nine cars carrying liquefied propane and four cars carrying crude oil derailed early Saturday morning, causing a dramatic explosion in the tiny hamlet of Gainford, about 85 kilometres west of Edmonton. There were no injuries, but about 100 people were evacuated from their homes.

The fire spread to three cars, while a fourth was vented to prevent an explosion. By Sunday morning, one car burned itself out and crews had moved the intact crude-oil tank cars away from the derailed propane cars.

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2 posted on 10/21/2013 5:32:02 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

time to outlaw trains in Canada (sarc).


6 posted on 10/21/2013 5:39:44 AM PDT by llevrok (Democrats are LAW-LESS because the GOP is Ball-Less)
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To: thackney

pipeline advocates cause it?


7 posted on 10/21/2013 5:41:50 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: thackney

Petroleum trains crashing and burning goes all the way back to the Rockefeller days. Don’t live near the tracks nor next to the water.


14 posted on 10/21/2013 7:05:40 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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