Breaking - train derailment

[Sea Six]

Just heard on FoxNews.


:sadangel:

I think it was in Virginia. I'm looking for info.

I heard the announcement and flipped over to see images of flaming wreckage.

Apparently it was a tanker.

[ApexOversteer]

Live Local Coverage: BREAKING NEWS: WATCH LIVE: Train Has Derailed in Lynchburg - WSET.com - ABC13 (http://www.wset.com/story/25392359/train-has-derailed-in-lynchburg)

Edit: They've already broken away from live coverage back to regular programming.


Seems to be no injuries and the fire is already weakening.

[Sea Six]

Live Local Coverage: BREAKING NEWS: WATCH LIVE: Train Has Derailed in Lynchburg - WSET.com - ABC13 (http://www.wset.com/story/25392359/train-has-derailed-in-lynchburg)

Edit: They've already broken away from live coverage back to regular programming.


Seems to be no injuries and the fire is already weakening.

:hurray:

[Admiral Blue]

Anytime a train derails and no one is injured or killed, I'd have to call it a good day. :seasix:

[DAB]

CSX train carrying oil derails in Virginia, bursts into flames (http://news.yahoo.com/derailed-train-virginia-carrying-crude-oil-city-official-191421959--finance.html)

http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/48YBVsTaor.6AuYejvepEw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTU0MDtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz05NjA-/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-04-30/0e9e95c0-d097-11e3-a54b-3b98f2b46475_BmfW50bCEAA9KNZ-jpg_large.jpg

[Jay13]

Anytime a train derails and no one is injured or killed, I'd have to call it a good day. :seasix:

Except for the suckers who shorted CSX the minute the new broke thinking the stock would tank. Serves the little vultures right.

[Craig]

And yet, pipelines are dangerous and bad for the environment...



...sorry loco...

:leaving:

[Loco Vette]

And yet, pipelines are dangerous and bad for the environment...



...sorry loco...

:leaving:
I can ship a railcar a lot fuggin faster than you can build a pipeline. Keystone anyone?

[Craig]

I can ship a railcar a lot fuggin faster than you can build a pipeline. Keystone anyone?

Yea...but in the long run...

Still, you do have an advantage, hard to push a box or a car through a pump and a pipe, they tend to get stuck in the strainer...

[Loco Vette]

Pipelines have their problems too. Remember JC's sanctimonious thread about the leak in Arkansas?

[99 pewtercoupe]

Pipelines have their problems too. Remember JC's sanctimonious thread about the leak in Arkansas?


From the oil companies perspective...it costs more to ship a barrel of oil by rail than via pipeline. However with a pipeline you are pretty much locked in to moving product from point A to point B. Rail allows you to move it from point A to point B,C,D,E,F,etc.

[Sea Six]

Except for the suckers who shorted CSX the minute the new broke thinking the stock would tank. Serves the little vultures right.

Yes, how dare those greedy investors make their own decisions about how to buy and sell their own shares based on pertinent information!

Fùck those free market Capitalistic bastards.

What we need is for the government to come in and regulate this market. We can't have this happening, eVar.

Not in this country.

Take your free-enterprising money-hungry sorry asses to some other place, say I.



Who's with me? :hurray:

[jaxgator]

Who's with me? :hurray:

Joecoooool no doubt.

[Loco Vette]

From the oil companies perspective...it costs more to ship a barrel of oil by rail than via pipeline. However with a pipeline you are pretty much locked in to moving product from point A to point B. Rail allows you to move it from point A to point B,C,D,E,F,etc.

As long as pipeline capacity exists where you need it. That's not the case with the "new" sources of oil. So the choice is rail or truck and that's a nobrainer on an economic basis. Barges are doable if there is a route nearby origin and destination.

[Sea Six]

As long as pipeline capacity exists where you need it. That's not the case with the "new" sources of oil. So the choice is rail or truck and that's a nobrainer on an economic basis. Barges are doable if there is a route nearby origin and destination.

So, you say yea or nay on the Keystone Pipeline?

:waiting:

[Kerrmudgeon]

That's the second in a few days. The same thing happened up here in Quebec over a year ago, right in the middle of a small town, Magontique. And the same crappy thin walled tank cars too. We outlawed them a few weeks ago.....damn things are 30-40 years old.
Incidentally, the ones that burned up here were on a US owned train. :(

[Loco Vette]

So, you say yea or nay on the Keystone Pipeline?

:waiting:

Yay. None of our lines are benefitting from the current crude by rail :cuss: which wouldn't be affected by Keystone anyway.

[Craig]

Yay. None of our lines are benefitting from the current crude by rail :cuss: which wouldn't be affected by Keystone anyway.

Full disclosure: I own Trans Canada stock.