WASHINGTON –A CSX freight train derailed near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station Sunday morning, leaving several cars overturned and a hazardous leak coming from at least one car, according to city officials.
Upwards of 10 cars derailed from a train bound for Hamlet, North Carolina, from Cumberland, Maryland, about 6:40 a.m……
http://wtop.com/dc/2016/05/csx-train-derails-in-northeast-d-c-possible-hazardous-leak/
Cue the NIMBY’s (in the press and public - not here).
If your going to have a train wreck don’t do it in Washington, DC on a slow news day in a city that wants to make you go away.
Sodium hydroxide needs to be handled with care. One of the main uses is in hand soaps. It’s the ingredient in soap that makes your hands slippery.
UN1823 PG II, MSDS:
Maybe in tank car size quantities it could be used to clean up DC politics.
There’s not enough of it in the known world.
Tom
Sodium Hydroxide? Ain’t that also called “Lye”… seems to me that was a shipment directly TO Washington DC… where else would all them thar politicians come up with their LIEs.
Especially once we get done using what we need in Albany…
Now, back to your regularly scheduled train wreck thread…
So why do NIMBY’s like to hate trains again? And que the media miss reporting in 3 2 1
We seem to be an angry society today. And everything is done at top notch speed, with all the distractions we can buy. We are now a careless society - just get it done, right or wrong and don’t get in my way. Trains get in everyone’s way at one time or another. So let me build on this property next to the right-of-way and complain about the trains that weren’t supposed to disburb me.
This is looking like a boo-boo even “The Wreck Lady”* couldn’t sugarcoat her way through.
*The original female Media Relations Spokesperson for the CPR in the Alberta region in the early '80’s.
Bruce
Does anybody know how this affected operation of Amtrak 29/30, the Capitol Limited, today?
How about tomorrow, same question?
Tom
CSX P030-01 did not make DC, P030 has departed Chicago on the 1st and will become P030-02 departing Pittsburgh. P029-01 did not operate from DC.
I have no idea when track will be restored but will throw out 24/36 hours from the happening.
A carload of lies taken to DC? Isn’t that like coals to Newcastle?
Not all hazardous materials are shipped in tank cars. Sodium hydroxide would be shipped in a covered hopper since it is a solid and it reacts pretty nastily with water, as anybody who used “Drano” to unclog a sink would know.
Forgive me for being off topic, but since this train was bound for Hamlet, I wonder how busy is Hamlet, as well as the former Seaboard lines that converge there. When I saw this area 35 years ago, it still had a respectable amount of traffic passing through or ending there.
Careful now. Where do you think these objectionable politicians come from?!
In all seriousness, some of the spilled material is truly hazardous, and I don’t think anybody on this forum (or anywhere else) would want this dumped in such quantities near their home.
Appears service restoration has been delayed by transfering the HAZMAT load, which was completed at 1730 today according to the media. P029 & P030 will bus passengers between Pittsburgh and Washington.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-csx-16-cars-involved-derailment-dc-131835498.html?ref=gs
Paul, the majority (by far) of sodium hydroxide is transported in liquid form, in tank cars (also known as caustic soda).
Love how they say it was a massive 175 car train, but compared to the 300 plus car trains CSX has been running this one is a baby train.
Baby train - 15K tons and 2.12 mile long