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Massive Fire Rages After Another Buffett-Owned Oiltrain Derails In North Dakota, Town Evacuated
KFYR TV and Bismark Tribune and Zero Hedge ^
| 05/06/2015
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 05/06/2015 3:11:22 PM PDT by george76
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To: dware
When a rich guy waffles, the earth shakes
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posted on
05/06/2015 3:59:36 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: george76
My understanding of this train is that it was “empty” and returning for another load.
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:05:22 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: HiTech RedNeck
This train was struck by a pickup.
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:07:00 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: george76
Gee, it’s SO much safer than a pipeline, or so they told us.
I dunno, I’ve never seen a pipeline derail.
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:08:12 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Paladin2
And, traffic collisions are more likely around urban, or at least settled, areas.
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:09:48 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Darksheare
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:10:12 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Paladin2
Blew up real good for an empty (unless that is an erroneous pix at ZeroHedge)
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:10:52 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
“I swear, that pipeline cut me off!”
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:13:20 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I only know what I read.
There was no info I could glean on the train's direction from the pic. Yep, it and some spilled cargo are burning real gud in the pic.
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:14:26 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: HiTech RedNeck
![](http://www.grandforksherald.com/sites/default/files/styles/full_1000/public/field/image/050715.n.gfh_.Heimdal1.jpg?itok=vC5qm1uC)
Looks like they got it out fairly quickly.
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:20:50 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
“Burning oil tanker cars from the Bakken Oil Field smolder at the site of a derailment on the east side of Heimdal, ND, mid-day Wednesday in Wells County. photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald”
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:22:52 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: GraceG
BTW, a web search for “pipeline explosion evacuation” will give you quite a few, often not the whole (much larger) town, but at least as many people.
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posted on
05/06/2015 4:53:11 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: george76
Gee, maybe something like a pipeline would be better? Nah... /sarc
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posted on
05/06/2015 5:14:48 PM PDT
by
piytar
(We are well on the way to building a freaking Warp Drive. Do you really want to tick us off?!)
To: HiTech RedNeck
The empty’s are far more flammable then the loaded cars. I use to drive a gas tanker in DC, when it is empty it is filled with vapors and is in a very volatile state. In the loaded car it makes a mess and a nasty fire but no explosion.
To: HiTech RedNeck
No, that is not reasonable.
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posted on
05/06/2015 7:28:44 PM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: george76
These stories never get to the why of the matter. Why are these trains derailing more often? Speeding? Criminal environmentalist freaks sabotaging the tracks? Something is going on with trains in the past 6 or 7 years since the Obozo nightmare started.
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posted on
05/06/2015 8:17:49 PM PDT
by
Newtoidaho
(Sprinkles are for winners.)
To: Newtoidaho
They are not having more train derailments. We have more train derailments carrying oil, because the amount of oil moved by rail has greatly increased.
![](http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2014.08.28/main.png)
![](http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/images//2015/cht08.gif)
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posted on
05/07/2015 4:18:05 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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