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Source: Reuters
Amid controversy, oil trains quietly rerouted through Virginia towns
BY EDWARD MCALLISTER AND JARRETT RENSHAW
Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:49pm EST
(Reuters) - Hundreds of communities across the United States have become accustomed to the sight of mile-long oil trains rumbling by in recent years. Pembroke, Virginia, was not one of them, until now.
CSX Corp is temporarily rerouting up to five oil trains through this small riverside town to bypass the site of an explosive oil train derailment that occurred 90 miles north in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, on Monday. The trains will likely travel instead on a track that hugs the New River and at one point sweeps into the Pembroke town limits.
In line with a federal protocol established last year following a string of fiery derailments across North America, the Virginia Department of Emergency Management on Tuesday informed 16 counties and cities that oil trains could be coming through their towns, local officials and fire departments said, one day after the Mount Carbon derailment. Those counties passed the information on to local emergency responders.
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)Your sig line is making me think....
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I heard one guy on a news show say "they're called bomb trains".
about my sig line ... I could have done things differently. So, I remind myself of the good times.