Which inspires a calculated thought: Certain modern carriers are notorious for neglect of their plant. If a “bomb train” happened to have a mishap on a neglected bridge belonging to a carrier having such a reputation, and the incident is proven as resulting from deterioration, shouldn’t that carrier be held criminally liable?
Don’t miss this part: “Deadly Crossing: Neglected Bridges & Exploding Oil Trains,” (downloadable PDF)
Since said “neglectful” carrier is required by FRA regulation to perform certain inspection and maintenance practices it would be almost impossible to say they are neglectful, and if they were is FRA criminally responsible for not ensuring complance?
Get a copy of the Emergency Response Guide and spend an hour or two roadside - or better yet, downtown.
SOS DD
Sounds like a “non-waiver” issue to me.
Well, by all means, let’s stop all trains at the borders and turn them back, because some of them are known derailers and blower-uppers.
More journalistic fear-mongering.
What about all those BOMB TRUCKS that drive by most people’s houses, driven by log book faking drivers that are barely awake at the wheel popping Amphetamines like they are candy.
Precisely.
OMG!!! Run for the hills…
sigh.
The tracks are a mile away. The interstate is a half mile away. The airplanes on landing approach are about 500 feet away. A city street runs right past my front yard. Gas and electric lines run under my lawn right up to the house! I think the trains are the least of my worries.
If eel like this quote from the article pretty much suggets that most of the article is not to be taken as serious, intelligent journalism.
“While Riverkeeper inspectors may not be engineers, the railroad owners inspecting their own bridges may not be much better.”
Don’t forget that for most Americans, cities and other municipalities pump Di-Hydrogen MonOxide directly into their homes! People DIE if they breath this stuff!
Indeed.
As you read the article, you can almost hear the author hyperventilating!
What? Like the suicide fuel trucker that attacked the Portland and Western today in Portland, OR? Gee downplay that, doesn’t fit the warped agenda.
I don’t know which is worse, that or Hydro-oxic acid. I believe that hydrogen hydroxide is just as bad. Perhaps our investigative journalists should look into this matter also?
Watch out for dihydrogen monoxide poisoning!
Cars kill more people in a year than guns, train wrecks, and pipeline disasters in their lifetimes (almost combined). Yet the roar from the fear mongerers to ban cars is deafening.
Don’t worry, the vigilant politicians in Kalifornication tried to enact legislation to protect their citizens from that “bad chemical”. Hooray we’re saved! lol