West Virginia Train Derailment Sends Oil Tanker Into River

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CSX train derails causing Huge fire and destruction hazmat incident and mass evacuations Media suggests 5 " of snow might have caused derailment...

MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. — Feb 16, 2015, 5:54 PM ET

A 109 car CSX train derailed And Lost some 14 Oil Tank cars at least 1 into the river and explosions with others... A state of Emergency has been declared By the Governor since the orginal annoucement......below

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/w...cid=fb_abcn_sf

Updates

http://www.wvva.com/story/28120374/2...fayette-county

Twitter pics below

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weathe...ain-d/42447431

Yahoo (note its in Finance section)

http://news.yahoo.com/csx-oil-train-...--finance.html

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These are the same trains that pass thru some of our Hudson Valley Counties , thru the downtown of villages and West Point grounds but a dangerous feature is when the tracks are on ridges above some river towns, which could turn them into instant Pompeii"s, when this volatile liquids flow

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Bakkan Crude is a light sweet crude oil rich in volatiles such as propane and butane making Bakkan Crude explode and burn as opposed to leak into waterways.

I maybe a bleeding heart liberal but building the Keystone XL pipeline will keep more of these "exploding" rail cars off the railroads given NAFTA allows Canada to ship unlimited amounts of oil through the US to the Gulf via these rail cars.