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bobabode

06-24-2023 07:15 PM

Train Derails Into The Yellowstone River

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Too bad Ill Duce T'Rumpolini never got around to "Infrastructure Week"...

donquixote99

06-24-2023 08:56 PM

Tanker cars? We got an oil spill in the Yellowstone?

Rajoo

06-24-2023 11:33 PM

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Damaged rail cars were carrying “molten sulfur and asphalt,” according to a statement from Montana Rail Link.

Two cars carrying sodium hydrogen sulfate were part of the derailment but neither landed in the river “and initial air quality assessments have been performed and confirmed that there is no release event associated with those two cars,” the railroad said.

The derailment occurred around 6 a.m. Multiple tanker cars were damaged and are leaking “petroleum products,” according to Yellowstone County Disaster and Emergency Services.

The derailed Montana Rail Link train cars included “several hazmat cars,” the regional rail company said in an earlier statement. The train crew is safe and no injuries have been reported, the statement said.

Yellowstone County officials said there was no immediate threat and “precautions are being put in place.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/us/mo...ver/index.html

RickeyM

06-25-2023 07:37 AM

Have the MAGA idiots gotten around to blaming Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden yet?

barbara

06-25-2023 11:49 AM

Lots of train derailments lately. For various reasons I am sure. But consider this, when Obama was in office, safety officials explained to him that trains are adding more cars making them longer. The braking system was not adequate because the first cars got the message to stop before the last cars. This gap in time caused buckling which details a train. Experts developed a new brake system that alerted all the cars at the same time to stop. Obama and congress approved and mandated that the new brake system be installed in trains and gave them until 2023 to make changes.
When Trump came into office he tore up the mandate and the new brakes were no longer mandated to be installed.

barbara

06-25-2023 11:53 AM

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...in-brake-rule/

Mark B

06-25-2023 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by barbara (Post 420452)

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...in-brake-rule/

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A coalition of environmental organizations on Thursday called on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to act on a rail safety rule scrapped by the Trump administration, arguing failure to enforce it increases the likelihood of environmental rail disasters.
The Trump administration in 2017 repealed a 2015 rule that would require some trains carrying hazardous substances to upgrade their braking systems to electronically-controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes. In 2018, representatives for Earthjustice, Waterkeeper Alliance, Sierra Club, Riverkeeper, Washington Environmental Council and Stand filed an administrative appeal of the Trump administration’s replacement rule, arguing it was based on outdated impact analyses that predate the current level of crude oil being carried by rail.

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