I have yet to see any rational description of how a manned caboose can somehow prevent a derailment of some part of the train ahead of the caboose. Fact is, in the caboose era there were derailments aplenty.
Yet another reason the Keystone pipeline should have been built years ago.
Does Jim Dodds from Illinois have any facts to back up his claims regarding safety records or is that just an anti-capitalist rant? If he does maybe he should cite where he discovered that UP and NS have “lower than average” safety records. BTW Warren Buffet is not a BNSF manager, so he leaves it to the professionals to run the railroad that has gained 50% of the entire industry’s business gains.
Does Jim Dodds from Illinois have any facts to back up his claims regarding safety records or is that just an anti-capitalist rant? If he does maybe he should cite where he discovered that UP and NS have “lower than average” safety records. BTW Warren Buffet is not a BNSF manager, so he leaves it to the professionals to run the railroad that has gained 50% of the entire industry’s business gains.
The crude didn’t "leak " by common definition . . . it sort of oozed into the parking lot and essentially stopped when it hit snow. They cleaned it up with shovels.
So many people with misconceptions. First off a cabosse does not prevent derailments. The people in the caboose often get hurt when the air gets dumped and it stops quickley but they themselves can’t stop the train. Next read some other articles about the oil fields including the article in this months issue and you will find that currently over a million gallons per day is going via rail while the Keystone will only move about 700,000 when completed and it can only go to one place while rail can move it to whover wants to buy it. Also remember the majority of the rail cars are owned by leasing companies and the shippers so they are rsponsible for maintaining them.
I wonder how many posters banging the drum for the pipeline have read the article be Fred Frailey. Does a thorough job of explaining why that is not a cure-all. It would be nice if dome of the ignoramuses in the general media at least scanned it. I know they have the attention span of a 3-year old on agar-laced crack, but a little more knowledge might help.
Should be sugar-laced
Should be sugar-laced
Two questions: (1) WHY did the train derail? NS traditionally has some of the safest, best-maintained track in the US. Track problem or rolling stock problem??
(2) Would we be hootin’ and hollerin’ if the cars had contained, say, lumber, or maybe a unit train of auto rack cars, either loaded or empty?