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The Positive Side Of Exploding Oil Trains - TMFS SKETCH (Original Post)
matthewf
Mar 2015
OP
I get over forty of these coming through the town I live in per week.
Still In Wisconsin
Mar 2015
#1
Like #1, you are brave to deal with this daily. What a time of corruption & greed.
appalachiablue
Mar 2015
#4
Risking lives & the environment to enrich the energy industry & corrupt govt. like it's 1895, Gilded
appalachiablue
Mar 2015
#3
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)1. I get over forty of these coming through the town I live in per week.
Many of the crossings and bridges over little creeks are old and in a state of partial disrepair. Add to that the fact that the bomb trains run for many miles right along the Mississippi river here and you have the recipe for a major disaster. It's not if but when.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)2. 23 daily in my small town.
I live less than 100 yards from the tracks.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)4. Like #1, you are brave to deal with this daily. What a time of corruption & greed.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)3. Risking lives & the environment to enrich the energy industry & corrupt govt. like it's 1895, Gilded
Age of wealth, corruption, poverty & inequality. Capitalism unregulated, Redux.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)5. What positive value? the fact that the tracks are destroyed so it can't happen again?
tclambert
(11,087 posts)6. Terrorists are thinking, "Man, why didn't we think of bomb trains?"
drynberg
(1,648 posts)7. TERRORISTS...CAN THEY CASH IN ON THE BOMB TRAIN?
Pictures at 11.