(1) Back in the late 60s, a freight hauler derailed outside the city limits. Most grain cars and empties headed for Detroit.
After the cause was determined, they bulldozed the whole lot to the side and repaired the track so the Amtrak line could resume.
Over the next 6-8 months, they emptied the cars and disassembled all of them.
(2) Did you know that unrefined and refined petroleum products leaking from rail cars onto the railbed don’t need to be cleaned up if the leak occurred for over more than a mile before discovery, regardless of amount.
Everyone else must have an SPCC plan.
Railroads are special.
I know a guy who was a farmer that had a derailment on tracks crossing his land. The railroad was having trouble getting someone to clear the site so the farmer got his tractors and field hands and moved the cars away from the tracks and they paid him handsomely.
The wise farmer decides to sell his land and buy bull dozers, and trucks and trailers to haul them on, and had special lift dozers welded up and started a company Called Hulcher Services.
Goes anywhere in the US to clear derailments. Has a Lear jet now and several ranches.