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[excerpted by rule] look at the last few railcars with FRED blinking away, waiting to feed the fire.

[Paladin2]

The train’s engineer (staying in town after parking his train at the top of a hill ~6 mi away) rounded up a railcar moving vehicle and pulled 9 to 13 cars off of the back of the train before they could become involved.

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The timeline on this is still unclear, but it appears that within as little as 20 minutes up to two short hours from the time the locomotive was turned off, this train turned into a runaway bomb. Another factoid is that the grade into town as 1.2% which compares to the 1.4% found in the Rocky Mountains. Talk about locked and loaded!

Some have posted that the Keystone Pipeline would not have prevented this disaster. While that MAY be true, the focus needs to be on preventing the NEXT disaster. This was a relatively small train, no? Consider the scale of disaster that can happen on the main flow line down through the heartland to the Gulf Coast.

Also consider the explosion [npi] in tanker car traffic that places every bit of rolling stock in service. A factor in the Lac-Mégantic was the older DOT-111 cars that have a history of puncturing during accidents (see Blame game over Lac-Megantic blast as train company and fire crews point finger at each other). Would the pipeline relieve some of that pressure? You betcha.

[G Larry]

oh ya!

Haven’t you seen this video on all of the nightly news programs of ABC, CBS, etc

[alarm rider]

Incredible video.

[BenLurkin]

Pub de Musi Café daté de 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpa1Dc4yqeo