Reuters is havinng issues lately, so I'll post the entire article for you.

CSX train hauling North Dakota oil derails, cars ablaze in West Virginia
BY KARA VAN PELT
BECKLEY, W.Va. Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:21pm EST
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(Reuters) - A CSX Corp train hauling North Dakota crude derailed in West Virginia on Monday, setting a number of cars ablaze, destroying a house and forcing the evacuation of two towns in the second significant oil-train incident in three days.

One or two of the cars plunged into the Kanawha River, and "a couple are burning," said Robert Jelacic, night shift manager of the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. There were no injuries or deaths, he said.

CSX said the train was hauling 109 cars from North Dakota to the coastal town of Yorktown, Virginia, where midstream firm Plains All American Pipelines runs an oil depot. It said one person was being treated for potential fume inhalation.

West Virginia State Police First Sergeant Greg Duckworth, who was at the crash site, told Reuters that nine or 10 of the cars had exploded at intervals of about every half hour. A similar sequence has occurred in a handful of other derailments over the past year and a half, with the fire from one tank heating up gases in the next nearest car, causing it to ignite.

"It's a real mess down here," Duckworth said. He said all but 14 of the cars on the train had been pulled out of harm's way.

A 1-mile-wide area around the incident was being evacuated after a house caught fire because of the accident, Lawrence Messina, spokesman for the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, told Reuters.

Heavy snow and frigid temperatures were hindering efforts to deal with the incident, Jelacic said.

West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin issued a state of emergency for Kanawha and Fayette counties after the derailment.

The train derailed at 1:20 p.m. EST about 33 miles (54 km) southeast of Charleston, the state capital, according to Fayette County 911 Coordinator James Bennett.

The derailment occurred less than 200 miles (320 km) west of Lynchburg, Virginia, where another CSX train also bound for the Plains terminal in Yorktown derailed and erupted last April. Plains did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Local websites showed images of flames at times twice the height of nearby trees and a thick plume of black smoke near a partly frozen river, with a number of houses nearby.

RAIL SAFETY CONCERNS

The latest incident came just two days after a Canadian National Railways train from Alberta's oil sands derailed in a wooded area of northern Ontario. CN said 29 of 100 cars were involved and seven caught fire. No injuries were reported, but the cars were still on fire on Monday.

A boom in oil shipments by rail and a spate of derailments across North America have put heightened focus on rail safety. In 2013, 47 people were killed in the Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded.

The latest incidents will likely refocus attention on U.S. and Canadian regulators' efforts to improve the safety of such shipments, which have spurred concerns over both the flammability of very light oil from the North Dakota Bakken shale as well as the flawed design of older tank cars.

The U.S. Transportation Department has submitted a proposal to the White House to require adding an extra 1/8th inch of steel to most existing oil train tank shells, while new models would have the thicker hull installed on the factory floor.

It was unclear what kind of tank cars were involved in the derailment on Monday.

(Reporting by Kara Van Pelt in Beckley, W.Va. and Jonathan Leff in New York; Editing by Chris Reese, Tom Brown and Peter Cooney)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/17/us-usa-train-derailment-csx-idUSKBN0LK1ST20150217

your link is no good

Quote from: redbeard on February 16, 2015, 05:41:35 PM
your link is no good

Mine very often aren't.  I'll ask the mod to remove it.  thanx

Quote from: redbeard on February 16, 2015, 05:41:35 PM
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Give this a shot.  It's about the same thing.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article10488272.html

Raw: Large Flames Near WV Train Derailment

Don't we have pipelines to avoid this sort of thing.

Quote from: mdgiles on February 16, 2015, 06:50:38 PM
Don't we have pipelines to avoid this sort of thing.

No...Obama says they are dangerous

Quote from: mdgiles on February 16, 2015, 06:50:38 PM
Don't we have pipelines to avoid this sort of thing.

Yes they do, the libs say it will mess up the environment if we add more.   

Quote from: mdgiles on February 16, 2015, 06:50:38 PM
Don't we have pipelines to avoid this sort of thing.

I don't want to put words in keyboarder's keyboard, but my impression was that she posted it to demonstrate if we'd built the Keystone-pipeline, we'd reduce rail-transit of oil.  Thus reducing oil-related accidents.

And there's usually something funny going-on with CFX, relating to Warren Buffet and rail-stocks in general. 

He already owns (majority shares) Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Union Pacific, and Norfolk Southern.  -This, from 2009:

http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/blog/trade_trucks_trains/2009/11/csx_is_only_major_railroads_without_buffet_stakes.html

What a profitable coincidence that CSX is the culprit in the derailments.  Similar to the coincidence that has him fighting against the Keystone-pipeline's construction, alongside the Administration.

"The rail business is actually in tune with the future," Buffett said. "Trains move goods using far less fuel than alternatives."

   

Quote from: kit saginaw on February 16, 2015, 07:28:25 PM
I don't want to put words in keyboarder's keyboard, but my impression was that she posted it to demonstrate if we'd built the Keystone-pipeline, we'd reduce rail-transit of oil.  Thus reducing oil-related accidents.

And there's usually something funny going-on with CFX, relating to Warren Buffet and rail-stocks in general. 

He already owns (majority shares) Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Union Pacific, and Norfolk Southern.  -This, from 2009:

http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/blog/trade_trucks_trains/2009/11/csx_is_only_major_railroads_without_buffet_stakes.html

What a profitable coincidence that CSX is the culprit in the derailments.  Similar to the coincidence that has him fighting against the Keystone-pipeline's construction, alongside the Administration.

"The rail business is actually in tune with the future," Buffett said. "Trains move goods using far less fuel than alternatives."

Just for the record - it's C S X. It is an abbreviation of Chessie System Transportation.

Quote from: Darth Fife on February 16, 2015, 07:42:31 PM
Just for the record - it's C S X. It is an abbreviation of Chessie System Transportation.

Danke...  I nailed 1-out-of-2 at least.

Aww, gee...  Look at NYSE's opening price for CSX, 90-minutes from now: 36.08... down .49 from Friday.  The markets were closed yesterday, for Presidents Day.

The price-per-share is now down to 35.39, actually climbing 10-cents from 3 PM.

I know nobody cares, but this is Buffet's world.  Know the enemy... even though the irony is that he's a capitalist too.  But the objective is to relieve Dems of their money, pennies-at-a-time.  That goes for Steyer, GE, Soros/Petroleum Brazil, etc.

Buffet has a magic-number for CSX's price, to do whatever he does...  I'd set my magic-number at around 34-and-a-half bucks, hoping it's higher than his (doing some research, of course), then buy and sit on it. 

On to the next bet.  The market's waiting for President Big-Mouth to veto Keystone.  It's been sitting on his desk for a week now.  -Proving he's a spineless windbag.

Quote from: kit saginaw on February 18, 2015, 09:37:13 PM
The price-per-share is now down to 35.39, actually climbing 10-cents from 3 PM.

I know nobody cares, but this is Buffet's world.  Know the enemy... even though the irony is that he's a capitalist too.  But the objective is to relieve Dems of their money, pennies-at-a-time.  That goes for Steyer, GE, Soros/Petroleum Brazil, etc.

Buffet has a magic-number for CSX's price, to do whatever he does...  I'd set my magic-number at around 34-and-a-half bucks, hoping it's higher than his (doing some research, of course), then buy and sit on it. 

On to the next bet.  The market's waiting for President Big-Mouth to veto Keystone.  It's been sitting on his desk for a week now.  -Proving he's a spineless windbag.

I do, I love it when these ass holes lose money playing monopoly with our tax dollars.
Nothing I'd love more than to bait all of them into investing in a govt scheme such as rail, solar, or some other corporate teat, then yank the floor out from under them.
These people have been manipulating the mkt for decades with the assistance of the govt via crony corporatism connections, buying candidates for office and destroying the nation.

A bullet to the head for all of them would be akin to removing a gangrenous limb.

Quote from: Darth Fife on February 16, 2015, 07:42:31 PM
Just for the record - it's C S X. It is an abbreviation of Chessie System Transportation.

Well, no, it's not. The 'C' does stand for Chessie (the old Chessie System, formed when the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad merged with the Baltimore & Ohio and Western Maryland railroads way back in 1973). The 'S' stands for Seaboard System Railroad, with which Chessie merged in 1986 to form CSX. And the 'X' stands for the same thing as the 'S' in Harry S. Truman -- nothing. It was just a letter the lawyers picked when other 'third' letters they wanted made combinations that were already in use.

Thus endeth the nitpick.  Actually, I'll beg your pardon because railroad history is a sort of hobby of mine. In fact, my grandfather worked as a conductor on B&O trains for years. The "old home place" used to be called Gephart's Station, and when I was a kid there was a railroad track and a siding literally in the front yard of my grandparents' house, where my mom and my sister's family live today. Do you know what 'railroad money' is? Put a penny or a nickel on a rail before a train comes through. If you can find it after the train's passed (HINT: it will be considerably larger in diameter), you've got yourself a piece of railroad money. I used to have a boxful of it when I was a squirt.

I have one of many burning questions about this issue.  Where the heck is the EPA on all these deraailments.  I was listening to one news reporter right after this last derailment and he said that the correct info had not been given earlier.  By whom was it not given and what was the total number of boxcars involved?  Also, just how many citizens were relocated as a result of the spill that destroyed x number of homes in the area.  Then too, just how bad was the spill into the nearby river?   Guess the MSM didn't want us to know in advance of the Keystone pipeline issue just how bad this wreck was. 

Quote from: keyboarder on February 19, 2015, 01:25:45 PM
I have one of many burning questions about this issue.  Where the heck is the EPA on all these deraailments.  I was listening to one news reporter right after this last derailment and he said that the correct info had not been given earlier.  By whom was it not given and what was the total number of boxcars involved?  Also, just how many citizens were relocated as a result of the spill that destroyed x number of homes in the area.  Then too, just how bad was the spill into the nearby river?   Guess the MSM didn't want us to know in advance of the Keystone pipeline issue just how bad this wreck was.

It's not what the MSM tell you that boggles the mind.   It's what they don't tell you.   The MSM writes the news they don't report the news.