There is a video in the link exactly how it happened. Negligence and human error.
More of this to come.
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Train engineers get tired. Pipelines don’t
I thought I would post this again since the Executive Order last week terminating the Keystone Pipeline. This catastrophy is the direct result of shipping oil via rail oil tanker. 47 PEOPLE DIED
Time to dust off what I used to say about obama...
EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/Americans
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Attacks Christianity
e) Serves islam
f) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
Thanks, Timely Post.
I read this article and was surprised.
I long thought that Train brakes work like a Semi-truck’s brakes which requires air pressure to release the brakes.
Without air pressure the brakes fail to the BRAKING position.
“There is a video in the link exactly how it happened.”
The video says that when the locomotive shut down the air brakes lost pressure and ceased to brake the wheels.
I though air brakes worked the other way, namely, that pressure was what released the brakes, so if there was a pressure failure the brakes would be applied.
What have I missed?
How awful!
FReepers should keep in mind-— that by banning Keystone, this is a LOBBIED for event by— Warren Buffett who OWNS the railroad and the actual tank cars that are leased to his own company.
Burlington Northern Freight. Hundreds of cars full of crude oil in reality thousands of them in rotation... all the way across the Central Plains from the outlet of the Canadian Shale oil company (which is probably going to be bankrupt for their investment in Keystone, now screwed by idiotic environmentalists (remember the “fauxcahontas” greenie commies who claimed to be AmerIndians— to aid with the protest, burial grounds the works, and all fraudulent).
So it is safer to TRAIN haul (like the latter day Rockefeller did with his oil at a rate that caused the railroads to PAY HIM for them to haul the crude- serious)- with thousand plus mile of security endangered exposed rail track with the potential for MASSIVE spills/explosions— is better than a secure constantly monitored and patrolled pipeline that gives the US/Canada energy independence.
Sure secured MEGA billions for Buffett that is certain. Warren Buffett on the Boards of the companies he controls through Berkshire Hathaway at what per share. Check BN stock. Warren Buffett very much pedantic postal clerk inside r trading big D- Democrat. No genius there, any more than Welch was at GE. An opinion borne on long years of study.
Back to railroads— cause JoeBama likes “traincars, daddy!!” So did the Nazis, keep people out of personal vehicles, keep em on the train to the.... camps for the labor pool.
Note how silent Buffett has been and his peeps. A real a@@hole.