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Train Derails In Lynchburg, Massive Fire Erupts, "Flames Stories High"
In what can only be explained as a massive oil pipeline derailment, because trains are obviously so much safer when transporting flammable commodities, moments ago another train derailed in Lynchburg, Virginia with numerous railcars falling in the river, and a massive fire erupting with flames that are "storeys high" according to ABC13. And moments ago it was also announced that the train belongs to CSX and the burning product is, expectedly, crude oil.
Additionally, it appears that the CBTX on the side of the train cars indicates they are associated with CIT Croup/Capital Finance.
Click on the image below for the Live webcast:
Some more photos from the scene of the accident:
"RT @ABC13News A train in the lower basin has derailed and caught fire." scary stuff in downtown Lynchburg. stay safe pic.twitter.com/eNdGb5F33F
— jake holland (@jakeholla) April 30, 2014
Train derailment. Photo: Jean Bowman. pic.twitter.com/odeDbujFpQ
— ABC13News (@ABC13News) April 30, 2014
Train derailment in downtown Lynchburg. Photo: Brian M oore pic.twitter.com/RLOBGjTSbZ
— ABC13News (@ABC13News) April 30, 2014
CSX CEO Michael Ward spoke with FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Liz Claman about CSX’s train car derailment in Lynchburg Virginia. Ward said, “we are deploying all of our resources for three primary purposes; one to support the local emergency responders, and secondly to protect the community and the citizen injury, and finally to protect the environment.” Ward went on to say, “we are actively engaged with the emergency responders” and that “We’re setting up a community response center at this point and we’ve deployed both external and internal environmental experts to the scene.”
On the CSX train car derailment:
"As you noted it just happened a little over an hour ago, so there is not a lot of detail. What we do know is a unit hall train and it was headed to Yorktown, Virginia derailed in Lynchburg at least one car is on fire as the report we have. What I can tell you is we are deploying all of our resources for three primary purposes; one to support the local emergency responders, and secondly to protect the community and the citizen injury, and finally to protect the environment. So we are actively engaged with the emergency responders. We’re setting up a community response center at this point and we’ve deployed both external and internal environmental experts to the scene.”
On railroad regulations:
"We as an industry, we as a company, are in favor of tougher tank car standards. To be honest and forth right with you. We don’t own the cars, they are either owned by customers or leasing companies. But we do think there are some improvements that can be made.”
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............or union sabotage.
New pipelines are just a gigantic land grab by corporations.
Oh my, seems ceding public and private lands for corporate profit is quite popular.
Better start creating a better rail transit system in this Country if the politians in D.C. want to see their dream of replacing Russia's gas and oil to Western Europe with our latest "fracking projects"?...
Pathetic and insane is never a good combo!
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Better start creating a better rail transit system in this Country
Could be a "shovel ready" project. Oh, wait...
No money.
Well they need to find the money!
Not only do we need a more modern rail system to transport that "future oil bounty" to those eagerly awaiting Western European clients, but we will also need it to pick up and drop off the free "worker bees" that will inhabit FEMA installations that intersect many of those rail lines across this great expanse of ours!
Oh they will find the money, but only after the big default, so lets get it over with, rah rah rah, team B beats team A and we can all go home a celebrate with a, design.
CSX train carrying ammonium phosphate
Ammonium phosphate is the salt of ammonium and phosphate. It is a highly unstable compound with the formula (NH4)3PO4. Because of its instability, it is elusive and of no commercial value.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_phosphate
I'm sure trains are carrying products with no commercial value. You know, people will pay big bucks for a product with no commercial value.
In case you missed the hazard pictogram on the link, the red diamondis a ZERO.
NOT FLAMMABLE YOU MOOK!
Nice try. Now get back to your Hot Pockets.
This is what happens when you have record levels of supplies and you want your price to go higher.... I am beginning to wonder why all of a sudden all these train cars of flipping over and going boom.
Still have the "Ignorant meter" pegged to max I see....
Union sabotage????
Must have been one of those new Tesla locos.
You need to get yourself two Tesla's to power your home. Keep one at the free charging at the local free charging station, keep the other one home discharging into your home's electrical system with your meter running backwards selling the juice back to the grid. How long until you can pay off both vehicles?
Time for obamma to apoint a czar of gravity. It sure is a bitch.
Ah, the WEBs we weave...
"It's Busch's fault, he's an oilman"
plus it happened during the Obowel Movement.....
It's good for the environment... and think of all the firefighting jobs and hospital jobs.
any word from Charlie "Suck it up" Munger or his CNBC handler?
Uncle Warren will get Obama to burry this story ....it will resurface on the MSM on the fourth of july weekend on .
How does a train derail on a straight track? Are the wheels coming off, eventually?
It's an Obamacare train.
This train wreck was predicted months ago.
sinkhole under the tracks after heavy rain... which happens a hell of a lot more often than you think
Where's the guy with the Matthew chapter 22 and 23 quotes?
I'm just glad it wasn't the SOOOOoooooouuuul TRAaaaaain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0GtuI22A6M
North American dead from outside terrorism - 0.
Number of dead from train derailments - several hundred in a few years.
Number killed as a result of someone texting while driving over that period of time?
~2-3000....
ANd that is lowballing it...
Last month a neighbor drove off the road over my mailbox so far off the road that his driver's side tire lined up with the post. This is only 400' from turning onto our street. It's time that they make these devices shut down when they are in motion.
I do not have a dog in the fight, do not text and drive, call and drive, etc... but... do not want MORE regulation on anything. Just my thoughts.
Gonna need a lot more nuts with ARs to top them numbers!
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/12/nhtsa-cell-...
PS - I've been saving this link since the cry babies in CT shoved that ridiculous scary black gun ban down decent people's throats last year.
Whew, for a minute there I thougth it might be whiskey.
At least the energy producers are spreading their disaster areas out.
We dont need no stinkin Keystone pipeline. We prefer BBQ'd people.
This is near the coast in Virginia and has nothing to do with the Bakken deposit in Nebraska. This CSX line runs to/from Norfolk, VA the largest port on the East coast. I don't think you can blame this on Buffett.
Buffett only transports mother's milk on his trains.
When your business is to transport oil by rail, you tend to live away from the tracks in out of the way places like Omaha.
Maybe we see another wave of nail gun accidents soon.
How many more must they orchestrate before the feds approve the Keystone pipeline?!
Do a search for train on DrillingMaps.com for train and you will see several train derailment accidents this year. Its a bit out of control. Why we need to export OUR oil outside the USA is beyond me.
Wouldnt it makes sense for supporters of the pipeline to that aim to make billions benefit from a train 'ACCIDENT'?!?!?!?!?!?! My father worked on track maintentance for rail cars here in the Northeast. Trains are very safe, but it would be easy to sabbotage a section of rail or a few tanker cars to cause accidents.
Lets invest in improved rail system. If rail was free market they could transport goods across the USA for a fraction of the cost of trucks. They can also transport this oil stuff along with everythign else. Trains get 100 MPG.
A pipeline only pumps 1 thing and when the source is empty the public usually gets stuck with the adverse effects and the cost of clean-up..