When I was young, mom and dad could not afford Log Cabin for our pancakes, so we had to use Karo (which was straight corn syrup). If it was not hazardous, it might as well have been.
(I also used quite a bit of Karo)
If the train spilled a substantial amount of Corn Syrup, it would “Sweeten” the Colorado River based on Cletus’s topo map.
If the “Corn Syrup” story is a coverup of “Hazardous Liquid”...Then BAD Juju for all downstream.