The whole mess didn’t ignite, like the previous train wrecks carrying crude:
A CSX train carrying crude oil and sand derailed on a bridge over the Schuylkill River in University City overnight.
The Coast Guard said the incident happened at about 1 a.m. on the Schuylkill Arsenal Bridge, which crosses over the river from University City to Grays Ferry south of the South Street Bridge.
The two-locomotive, 101-freight-car train was traveling from Chicago to Philadelphia, according to CSX. Seven freight cars — six containing crude oil and one containing sand — derailed, the company said.
There’s no indication any materials are leaking from the derailed cars, the Coast Guard said.
we are damned lucky that didn’t fall ON THE HIGHWAY.
Here in WI, in mostly rural Caledonia between Racine and Kenosha, several (6, iirc) were derailed by rails damaged by the recent cold snap, then warming, then cold, warming, etc. All coal bound for an energy plant north of Milwaukee.
Coal was dumped, the use of the line interrupted until repairs and clean up were completed. Several of the rr cars were mangled.
And the line had been inspected the day before and found to be safe and usable.
There’s been talk of “ice quakes” during the real cold part of the cold snaps. Something about ice forming deeper than usual in the ground and causing rocks to be moved, then roads cracked and raised.