http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/08/40-still-missing-in-deadly-canada-oil-train-crash/2497875/?csp=Dailybriefing
40 people are still missing. These things are not usually an act of God, but carelessness or negligence. We will see.
Oil train crash
Do we all realize how much oil and gasoline criss cross this country daily? Talk about a terrorist target????
From this report, it sounds like they left one engine running to maintain air pressure in the air brakes. That engine caught fire and the fire department shut it off. When the reserve air ran out, the brakes released and the cars rolled off downhill.
http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/what-caused-train-disaster-not-brake-failure.html
But pipeline breaks ARE acts of god.
Just saw someone in a small town in the wild west taking pictures of a string of oil tankers parked on a siding an hour ago.