Posted on 07/17/2023 6:08:40 AM PDT by CFW
Round 2
There are train derailments EVERY DAY.
Hundreds every month.
Most do not get reported. It is mostly due to failing infrastructure. They are hundreds of thousands of miles of rail track in the USA & Canada. Millions of railroad ties.
Railroad ties are made of pressure treated wood. The wood rots eventually.
Same thing with bridges/overpasses, etc. The railroads are constantly repairing them. Unless they are planning on closing the spur.
For example, I buy lumber out of mills in central Idaho along the Clearwater River. Up stream from Lewiston, ID on fifteen years ago for the SCRAP value of the IRON. However, the guy who bought it decided to keep it running for about five years because the revenue he got from hauling lumber cars down to Lewiston. Eventually, the government closed it because the overpasses became unsafe. They drove that train about 10 MPH too. Really slow. They closed it a few years ago. The cost to repair exceeded the revenue. It is a rail trail now.
Sorry, the guy who bought the Camus Prairie RR did so for the iron scrap value only. He only operated it until he was forced to repair overpasses by the govt. Then he shut it down and pulled all the iron out and abandoned it.
What forced him to close it was a derailment on an overpass going over a creek. Two or three of the cars centerbeam flat cars derailed and tipped over.
As I said earlier, this happens all the time. We even get calls from insurance companies with salvage loads of lumber.
Sometimes there might only be 75% of the shipment left. The rest got throw away or stolen. Lumber laying on the side of the tracks especially near Indian reservations gets scooped up really quick.
“Silicon pellets. Just a highly modified form of - sand.”
Desiccant beads, Laxative...
Silicon is the eighth most common element in the universe by mass
Thanks for the posts. It seems it was just not reported as often previously.
It shows how attention can create what seems abnormal when it isn’t.
“Sand is silca, not silcone.”
Same...
“Silicon is the eighth most common element in the universe by mass, but very rarely occurs as the pure element in the Earth’s crust. It is widely distributed in space in cosmic dusts, planetoids, and planets as various forms of silicon dioxide (silica) or silicates. More than 90% of the Earth’s crust is composed of silicate minerals, making silicon the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust (about 28% by mass), after oxygen.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon
I have been to the caboose Butingege ?
Almost every manufacturing facility that deals in raw materials or finished products characterized by quantity or weight has a rail siding.
That is because most things that ship on a rail car are not dangerous. Its just another insurance claim. When it happens in my industry the sawmill replaces the load with another shipment ASAP. Then they file a claim with the railroad. The railroad files a claim with their insurance company. They sell the material at salvage value.
It only makes the news when there is some dangerous chemical spill that is hazardous to humans and the environment or an oil train burns a town in Quebec down.
I had a truck of lumber get in an accident and tip over on the bridge over the Saco River in South Portland, ME. It was a truck of 2x4-4’ going to a truss plant in NY. It made the front page of the Portland newspaper. I called the paper and got a copy of the picture. I got it framed and sent it to the customer I had sold the load to. On the bottom of the picture I had them write:
“Your lumber handled with care by XXXX forest products”
He had the picture in his office for years. The mill replaced the load as soon as they could. Someone in the Portland area bought a bunch of 2x4-4’ at a big discount.
Drinking water from there contaminated with silicon won’t make your wife grow fake boobs.
= = =
Yeah, but it might for trans’s.
Trump’s fault.
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