GALENA, Ill. (AP) — The rail cars that split open and burst into flames during a western Illinois oil train derailment this week were retrofitted with protective shields to meet a higher safety standard than federal law requires, railroad officials said.
The fire continued to burn Friday, a day after 21 of the train's 105 cars derailed in a rural area south of the city of Galena. No injuries were reported, but the accident was the latest in a series of failures for the safer tank-car model that has led some people calling for even tougher requirements.
BNSF Railway said in a news release that the train's tank cars were a newer model known as the 1232, which was designed during safety upgrades voluntarily adopted by the industry four years ago in hopes of keeping cars from rupturing during derailments. But 1232 standard cars involved in three other accidents have split open in the past year.
Those other accidents included one last month in West Virginia in which a train carrying 3 million gallons of North Dakota crude derailed, shooting fireballs into the sky, leaking oil into a waterway and burning down a house. The home's owner was treated for smoke inhalation, but no one else was injured.
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6 comments:
Where is the veto override. Let's see Bummer and Old McDonald have some backbone on lead. Another reason for the pipe line construction.
O I forgot the Soros money paying off Obama, Pelosi and Reed to stop it.
5:11PM
I think there's a Mr. Buffett who might have a buck or two in this game, too.
Moron in the WH does not understand that pipe lines do not derail. They also have shutoff valves in case of a leak.
funny how we never heard of so many trains derailing just a few months ago...
If they drill that oil... game over for climate change.
I know that many of you on here do not believe in climate change, but your also old, set in your ways, and make it too much of a political issue to read the science behind it.....
9:06
Oh I've been following the "science" behind the global warming scam for years.
1. NONE of the predictions made by the warmists over the past 20 years has been correct
2. The are manipulating data to make the past look cooler and the present look warmer.
3. They are just plain making stuff up.
4. The warmists cure for "Global warming" is a massive wealth transfer in the form of a carbon tax. The carbon tax will do NOTHING to change the climate.
@9:06 PM: What science are you reading?
Obummer's guide to climatology?
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