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Massive Fireball From North Dakota Oil Train Derailment Caught On Tape
*NO INJURIES REPORTED FROM BNSF TRAIN FIRE IN NORTH DAKOTA
Wind is taking toxic smoke towards areas southeast of Casselton, ND, after train derailment. Residents urged to stay indoors
A train has derailed west of Casselton, North Dakota just before 2:20 p.m. Monday. As Valley News Live reports, several area emergency teams are on scene and are setting up an incident command center. Emergency crews are urging people to stay inside and a code red alert has been sent out to residents in a two mile radius of the accident. The Casselton Fire Department says a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train is involved. An unknown number of cars derailed, but Valley News Live reports is told one bulk oil car is on fire and toxic black smoke is being released.
The explosion:
Valley News Live - KVLY/KXJB - Fargo/Grand Forks
Local media is reporting a second train hit the already derailed cars...
More images...
DEVELOPING: Emergency crews on scene of train accident with large fire in Casselton, North Dakota: pic.twitter.com/2rjSTFe6OI
— ABC News (@ABC) December 30, 2013
NEW PHOTO: Fireball or explosion from a train derailment near Casselton, North Dakota @KyleJohnsonVNL pic.twitter.com/lDSrLern9X
— NewsBreaker (@NewsBreaker) December 30, 2013
NEW PIC: Rising plume of smoke at train accident in Casselton, North Dakota via @missjenreads @MicahGrimes pic.twitter.com/GDRXZgitQp
— NewsBreaker (@NewsBreaker) December 30, 2013
Train oil tanker explosion in North Dakota 20 miles west of Fargo .. pic.twitter.com/rO2y0uonUS
— Ed Schultz (@WeGotEd) December 30, 2013
RIGHT NOW! Another explosion at the train derailment. @WDAYnews pic.twitter.com/5eagtWhjoX
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) December 30, 2013
#BREAKING: reports: A 2nd #TrainDerailment - near #Fargo North Dakota - Photo from WDAYTV - pic.twitter.com/6OJKf2qE2l
— Mark Day (@1310MarkDay) December 30, 2013
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Looks like good news for those trapped Global Warming scientists.
I live and work in this area(williston- have more than a few thoughts on the shale oil boom). Should be interesting.
Well it appears there really is some kind of oil "boom" there.
Joking aside, let's hope nobody was injured/killed.
Just another Agenda 21 orchestrated catastrophe. Gotta demonize efficiency and productivity. As always, expect to see energy prices go up.
Looks like something else may be going up....
Cameras everywhere? Note to self: Never do anything which may be construed as garish, brutish, in poor taste, misogynistic, gay, anti-establishment, priggish, twerkish, naughty, spontaneous, obscene, oafish, nutty, patriotic, boorish, threatening, or kooky outside of the bathroom as it will certainly be recorded for posterity. Even then, be careful.
leave the cell phone outside of the bathrrom and shut the door. you should be ok, unless you have an 'admirer' (who, obviously, doesn't work for the nsa) running a website with you as the star.
Obama withholding approval of the XL pipeline due to environmental concerns. Right! Real reason: Profits for Red Team (Buffet) no profits for Blue Team (Koch Bros.).
There are easily available safety statistics to inform any decision about transporting by rail or pipeline, but they are never presented. Only anecdotle reports of pipeline rutures. A comparison of ton miles per accident would show pipelines have smaller amounts of spills and fewer fatalities. Facts, we don't need no stinkin facts.
Brain melting.
Nobody was killed. The crude carriers are designed to contain their load in the event of derailment however the tanker cars were designed for dilbit (dliuent added bitumenous oil) and the lighter Bakken "sweet" crude oil has gas condensates in the fluid. When placed under pressure these liquids tend to have a lower flash point, which causes them to erupt vs. standard crude carried for the last 20 years via rail. Kerosene condensates and end-tail radicals are often the causes of light chemical flashes.
Anyways, back on topic:
- Train was going too fast for the conditions. Lines were not ice checked.
- Lacked a buffer between the cars, so that when the train derailed and snapped the cars went sideways. Led to tanker car collisions and the stack ignited.
Does this happen all the time ? Nope. Only when switch and driver are too lazy because their oversight gives zero shits before Xmas bonus. Does this happen more than a pipeline fracture in the casing ? Totally yes. Will NYC or L.A. drivers give a fuck ? Nope. There is not going to even be a blip in the crude price going into Feb. 2014. by this line disruption.
Net effect ? Nothing. With an election year, and the DNC being about a hundred million in debt, Obama will do jack shit to monitor US rail shipping regulations. His focus will be on the soaring obamacare enrollment, squelching the NSA scandal and trying to pump King Coal to get the 'vote' out for his at risk jurisdictions.
For all the shit Hunter Harrison got following Lac Magantiq, there is an excellent pulitzer prize waiting for whoever wants to do an investigative report on how BNSF snuck below the radar for the 3 years. Every year crude export permits were approved with zero protest while Keystone bore the full brunt of 'shale oil' "outrage".
+100
..of some old phart named Warren?
If you think crude oil makes that boom, you need to take remedial chemistry class.
Probably just the hot pressurised gases blowing another tanker apart and igniting upon release
But yes... this isn't your grand-daddies oil anymore.
Another fucking example of our sound rail beds,,,this place is going to shit!!!!
So a second train barrels into the already derailed train? Lemme guess, the conductor was on his cell....
No, but since no one was hurt it's all good.
Grain train derailed into the oil tanker train.
Grain fires. Good times.
Railroads are beginning to use remote control locomotives, at least in yard switching operations, and have begun to look into using them on road freight service.
Also, many railroads have cut the crew size down to next to nothing, run the crews rather ragged, and run longer, heavier trains which take longer time and DISTANCE to stop.
If your train is a mile long, you have a problem, the next train is a mile behind you, takes a mile for that train to stop, you don't have much room for error now, do you?
But hey, a burning tank car or two makes MUCH better copy than tens of thousands of gallons of oil that leaked into the ground from a pipeline accident.
DM&E isn't using that tech, think Lionel for remotes.. The UNION has driven the crews to skeletons, check your facts as to the WHY.
And, we don't get mile-long trains backed by another, lest we get an ass-pounding. You are calling us stupid?
If it were hundreds of thousands, I wouldn't care less so long as nobody died. I can really use some global warming bullshit to heat us up here in north dakota.
make the fat CEOs run the trains if you think the Unions are the problem.. why don't you check the wage ratios the last 40 years and say how shit is better this way?
In fact just outsource all management for a change to really cut costs
BNSF and CP is using that technology, and the DM&E was bought out by the CP.
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/columns/article.php/3319211
https://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=4648
Once one's ground water has a nice oily flavoring to it, one may be a bit more concerned.
Then again, perhaps not.
BTW, how is that DM&E Powder River Coal basin route coming along?
Hot pressurized gasses? From oil? Under shipping standards? No way.
You gotsta heat it up to crack it up... (thermal cracking)
It looked just like the time when I backed up my Pinto with a propane cylinder in the back into a fire hydrant...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_%28chemistry%29
The rate of cracking and the end products are strongly dependent on the temperature and presence of catalysts.
TEMPS ARE BELOW ZERO COUGH...
CATALYSTS. COUGH...
The flames are slightly above however...
Thermal cracking was the first category of hydrocarbon cracking to be developed. Thermal cracking is an example of a reaction whose energetics are dominated by entropy (?S°) rather than by enthalpy (?H°) in the Gibbs Free Energy equation ?G°=?H°-T?S°. Although the bond dissociation energy D for a carbon-carbon single bond is relatively high (about 375 kJ/mol) and cracking is highly endothermic, the large positive entropy change resulting from the fragmentation of one large molecule into several smaller pieces, together with the extremely high temperature, makes T?S° term larger than the ?H° term, thereby favoring the cracking reaction.
EXTREMELY HIGH TEMPS. COUGH..
This isn't the first time that Bakken oil has caused explosions...
"Some shale oil has been found to contain hydrogen sulphide vapour — a flammable, corrosive, and highly explosive compound. Bakken crude is known to hold considerable amounts of flammable hydrogen sulphide gas."
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/02/why-was-lac-megantic-crude-oil-s...
Catalysts. cough...
From your article.
He was later asked if the contents of the ill-fated Lac-Megantic tankers might have contained a liquid stronger than jet fuel.
“We’re not prepared to say anything at this point. What we want to say is we’re checking that for everybody,” he said. “We’ve taken samples of the product, we’ve sent it away for analysis, we’re going to wait for the results of those analyses to understand exactly what the properties were….
“I think for most people that arrived on the site, they were quite surprised at the extent of the fire and the subsequent explosions that occurred.”
I call bullshit.
MilliVanilli
Dude, are you a "I must have the last word" guy or what?
What is it with oil drilling workers? You have any internet article related to hydrocarbons and you are bound to get some "I must have the last word" genius expert who tells everyone else they are stupid and so on.
No.
But I do have Phd in Physical Chemistry. But no, I'm a dumbass.
Millivanilli
Relax. Nobody said you're a dumbass.
You have being a "dick" confused with being dumb. I can assure you that you are a "dick".
Thanks. I think freedom depends on people being dicks. You know, standing up for shit is real dicky.
"Chemical engineer Gregory Patience, who studies explosions in petroleum and fossil fuels, looked up a safety data sheet published by Cenovus on its Bakken product.
The oil’s flammability classification is the highest there is, level 4 — the same as methane gas and propane, which are also frequently moved by pipeline.
In the case of a spill, the Bakken oil could ignite, with a spark, at 20C. To ignite in the absence of a spark would require temperatures of 250C, Patience said."
No foul play here... it's just the Bakken oil and it's here to stay until it's gone in a couple of years...
You are a fucktard. Sorry.
Are you arguing that catalysts were added to the oil tankers during loading to facilitate refining? Or...
Something is very fishy. THat is what I am saying.
They're closing in on you.
http://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY
I'm just a lowly chemical engineer (therefore not in the same league as some of the rocket scientists commenting here), so take this with a grain of salt ... but I think that sparks and heat from derailed steel wheels sliding on steel track might cause quite considerable heat ... waiting for spilled oil to hit them. Just sayin'.
A possible cause of the derailment could easily have been a failed and red-hot bearing (at 1,800ºF). Enough of a "catalyst"?
Warren Buffet's death trains.
Millivanilli ,williston is no where near Casselton its about 300 miles away , I went near there today (Aruther 10 miles away) did not see shit but there again this is North Dakota things are always on fire , oil trains rolling back and forth across the boarder for the subs from uncle sugar, I did see a few dead dear .
The white steam in the forground is the beet factory.
it's actually the reason they'll use why oil will go up 1$ per gallon
Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Because pipelines are SO dangerous......
.....but ceding public lands to private corporations is.
That is the primary purpose of "public lands." Government has no business in real estate, other than to subsidize corporations.
boy just think if they put a pipeline in using accepted practice, with the usual safety measures (esvs) and operators to properly maintain and inspect it you might just limit things like this. But then Warren Buffet would be hysterical at loss of profit, and the enviros would be hysterical at the environmental (lol) impact.
Isn't North Dakota the only state left with its' own central bank? Man, those Fedcoms never sleep.
Looks more toxic than the bubbles in Uncle Warren's bath.
warren, warren, Warren.....WARREN!
Interesting coincidence... this was the headline underneath the explosion all day on every local news source: http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/590878/Public-hearings-set-for-proposed-ND-pipeline.html?nav=5583
Who is John Galt?
Global warming research ship stuck in Antarctic ice = proof of global warming.
Oil train derailment = proof that Keystone pipeline shouldn't be built.
did anyone on that local news channel say anything like, "it's okay if our infrastructure fails in one, two or ten spots this year. keep spending on yourselves while Rome burns."
Last thing I knew, WEB made a fair number of bucks of that infrastructure. Maybe he should pay for it.
I wonder if Uncle Warren will send an invoice for the "Free Heating Oil" provided, then claim a tax deduction for the donation to the poor.?
No, but he was on the phone calling the insurer AIG to "pay up bitch" hired some boys from XE to set the charge and shorted the stock the night before. So easy even a Caveman could do it.
Close.... mostly distractionary. Headlines like: train derailment empasizes fire training importance.... not even kidding.
There has been to many of these Oil train derailments to be coincidence.
This just REEKS of the handiwork of those bastards in the pipeline industry.
I await Warren's response next week which will probably be evidenced in yet another pipeline rupture...
Give a man enough roap, and he will hang himself.
And if you give him some soap, he might wash himeself. And if you give him some soap on a rope, he might hang it around his erection while he washes himself.
I bow wow too thee humor like the dog you and your erections is.
Well, if it's my soap and my erection, I will wash it as fast as I want to.
"MOM!! It's my wiener and I'll wash it as hard and as fast as I want"
Happy New Year.
Cue the pipeline leak/explosion in 5.4.3.2.1
Good for demand....
These trains are part of Buffet railways. I demand an investigation into how the old crony profits from this mess.
This should smack production for Dec pretty smartly.
Meh............
aliens
BNSF? Looking forward to the critical reporting on the PBS Newshour, of which they are a major sponsor.
Update: Not a peep on tonight's show. Didn't even warrant a mention during their brief summary of today's news.
Atlas Shrugged.
Atlas-stein Shrugged!
Atlas Shrugged.
Sabotage.
Just like those forest fires out west.
Maybe the saudis are trying to make a point.
sabo tar gee
Warren is not smiling.
Unless he's investing in pipelines.
Whoever shot that video failed rule #1 of internet videography, which states: "At the precise moment something interesting, amazing or exciting happens, immediately point the camera to the ground to ensure the moment will never be captured. Be sure to post the video showing your feet on Youtube with a juicy title to ensure maximum viewer disappointment."
Also, I hope to hell my package wasn't on that train. I had a late delivery last year due to a train derailment in Montana. That was about the last message I expected to see when I tracked my package.
If you like the Buffet Tax you can Keep the Buffet Tax
Were there any dancing Jews?!?
Wow!
What a day for "explosions" to round out this wonderful year and to portend what is coming our way in 2014.
If I had to pick the worst of them it's the loss of human life we've witnessed in the last two days in Volgograd Russia. Hopefully no one on this train derailment lost their lives, but if I had to guess there are some oil people mighty upset with this little "casualty" on their books and I'd wager it means more to them than any human life could ever amount if anyone was killed in it. Looks like the New Year's celebration for the oil company that lost on it will be somewhat muted now.
After all.
If you want to cut someone the worst that has lived all of their lives in the West or been indoctrinated in it's values you make them moan the worst when you hit the purse strings.
Not that any "marque" or edict like it has been issued just yet by the Russian government... But you never know.
This may be just one small little sample tasting at the "kinetic" buffet that is to come!
would be a great new years if Russia nuked the Saudis
Toxic black smoke, I say they should make a law where black smoke is non toxic.
UPDATE: Reports of a second train hitting the already-derailed train.
Aren't there any brakes in your trains anymore? Do instruct the Chinese how to attach brakes by 2016 at the very latest.
A train moves along and sometimes after the train has traveled over a section of rail, a length of it can snap and break.
If you are doing proper inspection, you can stop the train. Probably was too late.
It does happen, especially on cold winter days like it is up there in Casselton, ND. The rail shrinks and can break if it bends too much when the weight of the cars push the rail into the ties.
In this day and age how the heck can one train hit another. The manage to keep planes from hitting each other over airports.
Put proximity sensors in trains so they freakin know if one has stopped moving and is nearby.
Right now Becky Quick is mopping up Uncle Warren's Fruit of the Looms.
"Drivin' that train....high on cocaine."
I am originally from that area (red river valley). It's been record cold there: http://www.weather.com/weather/yesterday/Casselton+ND+USND0060:1:US. I am inclined to believe that the track failed to due to fatigue stress and impact resistance changes in the track due to the extreme cold.
At least no one died.
I'm convinced the safest, most efficient way to transport crude oil would be through oil-pipe lines.
It was negative but....... record cold.... mmmmmmm no. For example record negative with windchill in Minot -102. Not even close. Not even negative 30 or 40 airtemp today. Probably -5 ish.... nothing for ND. And since invariably some douche will dispute this: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_coldest_wind_chill_ever_recorded_in_North_Dakota
Atlas shrugged in real life continues
Randites, please continue to inhale deeply from the fumes coming off your futile understanding of both economics and physics.
Seems that Obamacare isn't the only trainwreck this year...
I have every confidence they can fuck it up even worse.
I mean look, we've had our first retard Vice-President, our first "black" President, so next time around we'll have Hillary!...our first hermaphrodite President.
The sky's the limit! ;-)
Wonder if Uncle Warren's trains are insured by Geico...
larry silverstein said..
hey warren it has been such a tragic day such a massive loss of tar sand through evaporation.
we made the decision to bang pull it and blame the arabs and the chechens so we could put in are monthly claim.
bandar bush
the king of saudi in another coma maybe
the bush firm
the koch bros
soros
rothschild
fracking psychotic corporation
rupert mucky murdoch and fox
cia psy war fare dept
fema death drill corp
fbi for kicks
canuck native american terror ists revenge for theft of the sacred tar sand sweeter than libyan missing gold
not.
like an agatha christie play so many crooks so much gilt.
Bad for Buffet and the railroad lobby and their block of the Keystone.
It's ok, Benito Obamalini has Buffet's backside.
When did Halliburton start working on trains? Oh, and since they bought Boots and Coots just before the 'Gulf of Macondo' incident, they haven't put out so much as a matchstick that I've heard of.
They will keep derailing oil tanker trains until the Canadian oil pipeline that nobody wants is approved and under construction. Then the derailments will magically come to a halt, until the next unwanted pipeline comes up for consideration. Then the cycle will begin anew . . .
Are the Chechens responsible?
Obviously this was the work of Muslims... /s