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Offline DeadNutz

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Train derailment
« on: October 29, 2020, 03:39:03 PM »
This is not what you want to see happening in front of you as you drive down the road in Texas.  :o

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Offline highland512

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Re: Train derailment
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2020, 03:59:40 PM »
KHOU is Houston if I remember correctly, lots of nasty stuff get carried in rail cars in that part of the country. I think I would have been getting my butt out of their instead of playing with my cell phone.

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Re: Train derailment
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2020, 04:24:34 PM »
I guess I should have added that it happened today in Mauriceville near the Tex-LA border. I wouldn't hang around either if I saw tank cars going into the mess and getting crushed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/train-derailment-causes-pileup-in-texas-forces-evacuations/ar-BB1awn5k?ocid=msedgntp
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Offline slip knot

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Re: Train derailment
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2020, 05:44:01 PM »
What little time I spent in  the petrochem plants was enough to let me know those trains are bad news. Prior to 9-11 they used to label the cars as to contents. Now its mostly a 4 digit hazmat number. Some very scary material moves by rail.

Yeah, I'd been out of there damned fast. 

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Re: Train derailment
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2020, 06:37:37 PM »
Yeah that dick head in front just stops. I kept waiting to see his reverse lights, what a fool.
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