AP Exclusive: Fuel-hauling trains could derail at 10 a year

[unhappycamper]

http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/cops/courts/fires/15799218-95/ap-exclusive-fuel-hauling-trains-could-derail-at-10-a-year



AP Exclusive: Fuel-hauling trains could derail at 10 a year
By MATTHEW BROWN and JOSH FUNK
Associated Press
Sunday, February 22, 2015
(Published in print: Monday, February 23, 2015)

The federal government predicts that trains hauling crude oil or ethanol will derail an average of 10 times a year over the next two decades, causing more than $4 billion in damage and possibly killing hundreds of people if an accident happens in a densely populated part of the United States.

The projection comes from a previously unreported analysis by the Department of Transportation that reviewed the risks of moving vast quantities of both fuels across the nation and through major cities.

The study completed last July took on new relevance last week after a train carrying crude oil derailed in West Virginia, sparked a fire and forced hundreds of families to evacuate.

Last Monday’s accident was the last in a spate of fiery derailments, and senior federal officials said it drives home the need for stronger tank cars, more effective braking systems and other improvements.

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Let's start calling these things what they are: Bomb Trains.

[daleanime]

1. K&R....

[madokie]

2. I think for what transporting we need to do

to supply us with fuel those lines should be required to be a line in a line with monitors watching for a leak in the pipe thats actually carrying the fuel. Possible even take apart sections to make it easier to get too. Any good engineer can look at a pipe line and come up with the most likely places for a rupture. Due to wear and fatigue due to how its made, the turns it takes the elevation changes etc. Line in a line then I'd be good for more of them. By rail is only asking for trouble. I wonder if the powers to be (Owners,) haven't planned this all along. Easy to do just cut down on maintenance and shit will start happening down the road aways. You can bet on it. These people I'm talking about look at the big picture and thats largely how and or why, they're where they are.

I really think that Utility companies should be nationalized, if you really want to know what i think. We all have to have fuel, rich or poor, we all have to have water, rich or poor. etc.
Groceries should have some limits on it too. Such as where possible sell local produced whether it be can, bottled or raw. Should be a limit on how much mark up is allowed. Everybody has to eat and not everyone has the same means but that doesn't negate the fact that person still has to eat, or sleep or whatthehellever.
Democratic socialist I guess is what I'm getting at.

[Historic NY]

3. Rolling bombs....

We have 44- 60 mile long trains a day running down the Hudson River...day after day loaded with the thick goo.