KCRG reported that close to two dozen train cars derailed after a crash Monday morning. Lt. Brett Grimshaw of the Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office said the crash happened a little after 8 a.m. when a coal train hit a road grader that had been backed up onto the tracks. And before you ask, yes, this train, too, belongs to BNSF, which in turn belongs to Warren Buffett.
BNSF railroad spokesman Andy Williams said two locomotives and 21 of the 135 cars being pulled derailed near mile marker 249 of Highway 34, which is between Danville and New London close to the Henry County line.
The grader was backed up onto the rails while doing repairs on Highway 34 and didn’t see the train coming, Grimshaw said. The grader’s operator was thrown about 40 feet by the impact of the crash and was checked by paramedics. No injuries were reported, Grimshaw said.
http://www.undergroundworldnews.com A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying crude oil derailed Sunday and prompted some evacuations in Wisconsin, the second day in a row a freight train derailed in the state. The eastbound CP train derailed about 2 p.m. in Watertown, in the southeastern part of the state. The railroad said at least 10 cars derailed, and some were leaking. No fires or injuries were reported. CP was sending teams to the site. “CP takes this incident extremely seriously,” the railroad said in a news release. The company did not say how much oil spilled. Federal investigators and hazardous material specialists are on their way to the scene, the Federal Railroad Administration said in a tweet. Residents of about 35 homes were asked to evacuate around 4 p.m., said Donna Haugom, director of the Jefferson County Office of Emergency Management. On Saturday, a freight train derailed near Alma in western Wisconsin, spilling thousands of gallons of ethanol. BNSF Railway said crews continued Sunday to transfer ethanol from the derailed cars and get the cars back on the tracks. Read More:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/t…
One Day After Obama Kills Keystone XL Pipeline Another Buffett-Owned Train Derails
Published on Nov 7, 2015
http://www.undergroundworldnews.com It must be somewhat ironic for the U.S. progressive moment that a day after Obama officially slammed the seal shut on Transcanada’s Keystone XL pipeline after a seven year “review” (and days after the company itself withdrew its application, something which the admin ignored just so it could have the final say on the mater), moments ago an oil tanker train derailed north of Alma, Wisconsin along the Mississippi River 80 miles south of Minneapolis, with at least 32 cars off the tracks.
The train belongs to BNSF - a company owned by Warren Buffett, and best known being directly involved in most of the recent oil train accidents. As such, this is the latest accident involving a “safe” Warren Buffett-owned train carrying toxic commodities, in a year where this “safe” Buffett-endorsed medium of transportation has already seen a record number of accidents.
As an reference point, here is a smattering of comparable headlines from just this year.
We stopped the pipeline. We’ll stop the trains. No more fossil fuels. We DEMAND the release of suppressed clean, safe, free energy. Keep trying to keep it from us and you must realize we WILL take it. It belongs to all of us. Which politicians want to end up on the wrong side of history?
We stopped the pipeline. We’ll stop the trains. No more fossil fuels. We DEMAND the release of suppressed clean, safe, free energy. Keep trying to keep it from us and you must realize we WILL take it. It belongs to all of us. Which politicians want to end up on the wrong side of history?