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Explosion at Nebraska railyard prompts evacuations due to heavy toxic smoke
NY Post ^ | 9/14/23 | staff

Posted on 09/14/2023 3:51:58 PM PDT by CFW

OMAHA, Neb. — An explosion inside a shipping container at the world’s largest railyard prompted evacuations in western Nebraska Thursday because of the toxic smoke generated when one of the chemicals aboard caught fire.

Around noon, an explosion occurred inside an intermodal container on a railcar at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, though it wasn’t clear what caused the explosion, railroad spokeswoman Robynn Tysver said.

No one was injured, and no cars derailed.

Authorities evacuated everyone within a four-mile radius of the railyard, which is about 280 mileswest of Omaha, was evacuated because of the smoke, and U.S. Highway 30 was closed between North Platte and Hershey.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: chemicals; explosion; nebraska; railyard; telefon
Some chemicals do not play well with others and should be stored separately.
1 posted on 09/14/2023 3:51:58 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

So has butt sex done anything yet


2 posted on 09/14/2023 3:56:14 PM PDT by al baby (I know its the way the measure the cooling capability )
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To: al baby

Probably on vacation again


3 posted on 09/14/2023 3:58:48 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: CFW

Some invaders do not play well with others and should be incarcerated separately.


4 posted on 09/14/2023 3:59:02 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: CFW

Two eyewitness accounts from the Golden Spike Tower who saw the explosion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQajLhnBeTQ


5 posted on 09/14/2023 4:01:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: CFW

Something to blame for higher gas prices. That giant hurricane just isn’t working out.


6 posted on 09/14/2023 4:17:14 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: al baby

That would officially be “Bootyjuice”.


7 posted on 09/14/2023 4:18:47 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: CFW

Look how BIG the rail yard is.
https://dinkumtribe.com/bailey-yard-nebraskas-world-wonder/


8 posted on 09/14/2023 4:31:30 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: minnesota_bound

IN 2001, I rode the Pony Express Trail with other riders on horseback. 50 miles a day-—5 days a week-—8 weeks-—2000 miles from St Joseph, MO to Virginia City, NV. Tues thru Sat. OFF Sunday & Monday to rest & replenish. Early June to July 26th or so.

We overnighted in Mitchell, Nebraska the 2nd weekend. The COAL TRAINS-—2-3 engines—120 cars long—came thru west to east every 30 minutes all 24 hours. We were at county fairgrounds & could hear the train horns going thru the small town-—Which is the soybean processing capital of the USA.

When we rode west on Tues Am, we saw a large switching yard-—9 or more sets of rails.

WAS A BUCKET LIST ITEM. 101 riders total participated in some fashion of another & 289 horses.

IMPOSSIBLE to ride across Nebraska/Wyoming/Utah/Nevada & NOT think about the pioneer wagon trains on the same trails.

Fort Laramie was particularly interesting.


9 posted on 09/14/2023 4:46:57 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: CFW

All By Design, destroy farmland, prevent harvesting of crops, raise prices of food that can be harvested. Additionally, what’s coming down the pike where they need a disaster to hide it? I have never heard of so many ‘rail road accidents’ in my life. It’s all by design.


10 posted on 09/14/2023 4:51:04 PM PDT by Conservative4Life (thy merchants were great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Rev18:23)
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To: Conservative4Life

I believe you are 100% correct.
Love your tagline.

Let me point you to another on in the same book regarding what we all see going on.

Revelation 11:18

And the nations were angry; and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints and them that fear Thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them that destroy the earth.”

The elites destroying the earth….perhaps?


11 posted on 09/14/2023 5:01:49 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: minnesota_bound

It’s the biggest in the world I believe.


12 posted on 09/14/2023 5:13:57 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: CFW

I’m sure Joe is on his way.


13 posted on 09/14/2023 5:15:17 PM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: CFW
They don't even identify what toxic chemicals were involved. That was some pretty white smoke for a toxic chemical burning.

But since it happened in one car, how do you know there was more than one type of chemical being transported in that car?

A very lacking report of the facts.

14 posted on 09/14/2023 5:28:13 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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