Posted on 05/17/2023 1:30:23 PM PDT by dynachrome
A railcar loaded with 30 tons of the chemical left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12. The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, according to a short incident report from the explosives firm that made the shipment.
The company, Dyno Nobel, made the report May 10 to the federal National Response Center, or NRC. The report also appeared last week in an NRC database of California incidents managed by the state office of Emergency Services last Wednesday.
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Dyno Nobel says it believes the material — transported in pellet form in a covered hopper car similar to those used to ship coal — fell from the car on the way to a rail siding called Saltdale, about 30 miles from the town of Mojave in eastern Kern County.
Ammonium nitrate was the explosive in the massive bomb used in the Oklahoma City terror attack of 1995. It was also the substance that caused a deadly explosion in a warehouse in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2020.
Foul play is not suspected yet, but the loss of a hazardous chemical is just the latest rail problem in the past several months. In February, a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, eventually leading to a massive explosion that spread potentially hazardous substances to the surrounding community.
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Yeah, it "fell from the car" when it was parked on a low trestle just like in Breaking Bad.
AKA a booster charge.
Maybe there was a little hole in the bottom. I wonder if the police checked that.
Why do I have to think of everything?
Exactly!
Sounds like Walter White is going into a new business.
fell from the car on the way to a rail siding called Saltdale, about 30 miles from the town of Mojave in eastern Kern County.
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Mojave town is kind of small and remote.
Saltdale is almost non-existent.
He’s too busy looking for racism behind black jaywalking fatalities.
“”You think it is lying on the ground in a big pile?””
Not necessarily but perhaps those around that area when it was discovered missing might get ideas. You don’t think that’s a possibility? In today’s world? I think I’ve seen all I care to see in recent years! In a world gone mad! Or should I say country?
Someone didn’t close the chute. Whoopsie. Look for lots of weeds along the rail line
“… fell from the car on the way to a rail siding called Saltdale…”
Should be easy enough to spot if it hasn’t rained to much.
Its didn't happen all by its self. Somebody had to open it, they cant just pop open. If that's the case there should be miles of evidence on the tracks. If so good, it poses no threat but the railroad will have to buy a bunch of Roundup.
I’m worried it’ll “blow up” eventually.
Halifax, Texas City, Beirut, West TX.
These little stories are starting to give me a stomach ache.
What they’re telling us is that there are going to be bombings in our future. ANFO is not a good choice for a bomb.
My thoughts, too.
Nobody here has made/packed sausage.
Got lost/fell from a rail car in the desert? Does anyone know where Walt and Jesse were...
I've come up with unbelieveable stuff. Look under the TV Room Couch...good heavens I pulled out a complete Roy Rogers Rescue Team Kit just a year or two ago.
I had never been more pleased. And Victorious.
Ammonium nitrate sales in large quantities are restricted around here. I don’t know if that’s by law or by fiat of the distributors. Yes, diesel or similar has to be added to make an explosive mixture.
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