Posted on 02/21/2023 12:10:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Union Pacific freight train derailed in Nebraska early on Tuesday, sparking an emergency response.
Around 30 cars carrying coal jumped tracks three miles southeast of the town of Gothenburg at about 1.45am, officials said.
Emergency hazmat teams rushed to the site of the crash. There were no reported injuries.
Images posted to KNOP showed dozens of rail cars strewn along the tracks, alongside mounds of black coal.
It was the fourth derailment involving a Union Pacific train in the area since May last year, KNOP reported.
In a statement to Fox News, Union Pacific said a clean up operation was underway with heavy machinery.
The rail industry has come under intense scrutiny after the 3 February derailment of a Norfolk Southern train that forced the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, to evacuate.
Toxic chemicals including First World War-era gasses were deliberately burned, causing toxins to seep into the surrounding air and water.
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Getting to be an almost daily occurrence. Curiouser and curiouser.
Coal is only toxic to the atmosphere if burned.
Or maybe heavily washed.
Look for the (striking) union.
I guess Secretary Buttplug is too busy breast feeding the child he falsely calls his baby to worry about the chaos throughout our transportation system.
>Getting to be an almost daily occurrence. Curiouser and curiouser.
There are on average around 1000 derailments per year. That’s around 20 per week or 2.7 per day. The data is for 2020, 2021 and 2022. You can find it on railroads.dot.gov.
What now seems to be happening is the MSM is reporting on some of them and there have been a few derailments of late with catastrophic consequences.
Take that, you...you...global warmers, you./s
No, I think it is demonstrably toxic, even in deposits far underground laid down millions of years ago.
What we need is a large scale Coal Remediation project, something along the lines of the mobilization in this country during World War II.
Dig that stuff up, and BURN IT. The only way to be sure. Otherwise that stuff will be lingering around in places like Colstrip for centuries.
As a practical matter it could be used to power electrical generation power plants, that would be very reliable and very economical. Further, it would provide much needed revenue to local tax authorities, and excellent careers for thousand and thousands of rural Americans.
Well 1000 derailments a year (3/day) would indicate this is business as usual.
It could be mined for the Hg.
Then we could use the Hg to measure the Earth’s fever.
I’ve actually been to Colstrip. And Gilette and surrounding areas.
Best to get China to extinguish their vast coal seam wildfires.
Yep! AND OUR GOVERNMENT DON’T give a CHIT! We should just put a billboard on the Rio Grande in Arizona,Texas, and California that says “come on in we’re open for business. All are welcomed, including terrorists, Chinese spies, and all those that want to harm America. Will fly you anywhere your little heart desires in America and will put you up in the most expensive luxurious hotels and pay you 2500 a month of goodies!” All the while our FBI and DOJ are hunting down conservative Catholics and the veggie in chief(LGB) is in the Ukraine forking over more billions to start a war. America Last… that’s the motto of the veggie administration.
I saw some statistic where 900 US peeps died in derailments/yr.
Not sure I believe it.
Getting ready to increase my Amazon order of more tinfoil.
Hmmmmmm. Another derail.
Can’t just scoop it up and put it back in the cars?
Sure,let some more terrorists in.
FTA: It was the fourth derailment involving a Union Pacific train in the area since May last year
I would inspect the tracks....
They may look like this.
Crooked tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2A2f6E5DI
A thousand derailments is probably accurate with many, if not most, occurring in switch yards or sidings at 3-5 mph, where a wheel or wheels go off the track. Easily re-railed by local crews and life goes on.
Far fewer derailments causing large wrecks like “absent Pete” wants to project as commonplace occurrences.
Coal is an environmental hazard?
Just like crude oil. You have literally dug or pumped this stuff out of the dirt that is the earth. Now I get fined if I drop some?
The cars are very bent.
They will scoop most of it up and put it in recently arrived empty cars.
The bent cars will be chopped up and shipped out for Aluminium recycling, like big pop cans.
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