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2nd train derails in Wisconsin in 2 days, spills crude oil
2015-11-09
[FOX] WATERTOWN, Wis. -- A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying crude oil derailed Sunday and prompted some evacuations in Wisconsin, the second day in a row a freight train derailed in the state.
Anyone still think campaign financing doesn't matter ?
The eastbound CP train derailed about 2 p.m. in Watertown, in the southeastern part of the state. The railroad said at least 10 cars derailed, and some were leaking. No fires or injuries were reported. CP was sending teams to the site.

"CP takes this incident extremely seriously," the railroad said in a news release. The company did not say how much oil spilled.

Residents of about 35 homes were asked to evacuate around 4 p.m., said Donna Haugom, director of the Jefferson County Office of Emergency Management.

On Saturday, a freight train derailed near Alma in western Wisconsin, spilling thousands of gallons of ethanol. BNSF Railway said crews continued Sunday to transfer ethanol from the derailed cars and get the cars back on the tracks.

The BNSF train derailed at 8:45 a.m. Saturday about two miles north of Alma, a town along the Mississippi River. Some of the 25 derailed cars were empty auto racks and tanker cars.

BNSF said railroad crews stopped the leaks from five tanker cars and placed containment booms along the shoreline. One tanker released an estimated 18,000 gallons of ethanol, and the other four released an estimated 5 to 500 gallons each.

No one was hurt. BNSF said it expects the tracks to return to service Monday morning.

Related: Citing Climate Change, Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  PTC extension was signed into law last wek; railroads now have 3 more years. did not see anything in he legislation that encouraged the FCC or Bureau of Indian Affairs to get a move on; it is these 2 agencies that are the primary hindrance in getting the infrastructure in place; FCC won't grant various frequencies and BIA and various tribes are throwing all sorts of roadblocks into railroads' path for the very localized boding of the soil for installing the trackside equipment.

And please don't forget this is all being funded by the railroads; there is no subsidy like there is for highways, sea- and airports.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2015-11-09 14:22  

#3  Buffet may own it, but BNSF spends buckets of cash on track maintenance. Your main stream media doesn't report it when whole trainloads of molten sulfur, chlorine, anhydrous ammonia, polyvinyl chloride, ethylene glycol, or LPG run off a thousand miles. Good news is no news.©

This is ironic, however, because the railroads are about to stop carrying that stuff unless Congress extends its (unfunded) mandate to install Positive Train Control (PTC) by the end of the year. PTC will stop a train passing a red signal because the driver is texting, or drunk, or drugged, or asleep, but does nothing for track or vehicle maintenance. It was much worse in the 70's - see video of Crescent City, IL explosion in 1970.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-11-09 12:47  

#2  If you're gonna kill a pipeline just because you own the railroad the least you can do is maintain the tracks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2015-11-09 10:49  

#1  18,000 gallons of ethanol,

Lettuce sing together Number 19 in your hymnal.
Me me me me (cough)

Shall we gather by the river,
The beautiful beautiful river?
Shall we gather by the river that's 20 percent alcohol.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-11-09 07:40  

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