Posted on 05/22/2023 12:28:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
We’ve seen a few concerning train stories under the Biden administration and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, including the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio that caused environmental damage in the town. Despite Joe Biden making a bizarre comment and then saying he would go, he has yet to visit the town. The administration hasn’t exactly inspired a lot of confidence with the way they have been handling things and they’ve caught a lot of justifiable flak for their delayed and deficient reaction to the disaster.
Now add to that a truly weird story on their watch.
About 30 tons — or 60,000 pounds — of ammonium nitrate went missing from a rail car during transit.
If ammonium nitrate sounds familiar, it should. It’s a fertilizer. But it also can be used as an explosive if it’s subjected to a fuel source or subjected to heat. That’s why it’s been involved in the past in explosive accidents as well as in intentional attacks such as at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, a bombing that killed 168 people and injured 850. That explosion only used roughly 5,000 pounds and it was mixed with motor fuel, then detonated in the parking garage — thus the reason 60,000 pounds going missing is raising a lot of eyebrows. That could do a heck of a lot of damage in the wrong hands.
The ammonium nitrate was being shipped from Cheyenne, Wyoming to California. It left Cheyenne on April 12. But the company shipping it, Dyno Nobel, said when it arrived two weeks later, the car holding the ammonium nitrate was empty.
Four separate investigations have since been launched.
The company was shipping the ammonium nitrate in pellet form and believes it may have begun falling out of the rail car at some point during the trip, a Dyno Nobel spokesman told KQED.
“The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale [Calif.]. The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit,” the spokesperson told the station.
The Federal Railroad Administration, the California Public Utilities Commission, Union Pacific, and Dyno Nobel are all looking into the disappearance of the material now and the car was sent back to Wyoming to investigate it.
The car made multiple stops on its journey to California.
“We take this matter seriously and will work to understand how it happened and how it can be prevented from occurring again,” a company spokesperson said.
This story is just a little crazy. How could they possibly lose that much? And it was all in one car? How could something like that just leak out? That sounds like such a strange explanation. If it had leaked out, wouldn’t they easily be able to determine that simply by backtracking on the trip? Yet, they aren’t saying that. And if it can just leak out, that’s not particularly reassuring either. How could they be securing something in such a fashion? But for that much to be missing is more than a little concerning.
People who believe the contents was “lost” also believe Epstein committed suicide.
Any guesses on who or what the FBI/CIA is targeting with the Bomb they are making?
perhaps it has been sent to Ukraine to kill russians?
Jesse Pinkman did it.
The cars it’s shipped in have gates on the bottom for unloading, and it is in pellet form.
All it would take is a gate to work itself open and considering it spent days rattling around it could have easily and slowly spilled out like an hourglass.
Easiest way to trace where the car went will be to wait until the next rain and follow the line of high weeds between the rails.
The seals weren’t broken on the ports either. Had this been gypsum or sugar or a thousand other bulk transport products there wouldn’t even be an investigation over a faulty gate. It happens.
follow the line of high weeds between the rails....................what type of ‘weed’?...................😎😁
Check and see if there’s a 12-yr-old boy and a trail bike missing along the line between Wyoming and CA.
The first thing I thought of when I read this story about a week ago was that it sounds like the start of an FBI operation. How long before we hear that “white supremacists” have been caught with 30 tons of this stuff and a detailed plot to blow up some building? The worst case scenario is that there is a bombing that the FBI will immediately link to “white supremacists” and use that as a pretext to stage mass arrests of people with the “wrong” opinions.
........“We take this matter seriously and will work to understand how it happened and how it can be prevented from occurring again,” a company spokesperson said. Our esteemed transportation secretary, the Honorable [sic] Peter Buttigieg, immediately noted, “We take this matter seriously and will work to understand how it happened and how it can be prevented from occurring again,”
Someone watched too many reruns of Breaking Bad.
Wonder if the timing of those satellite phones for senators is related...
This story is just a little crazy. How could they possibly lose that much? And it was all in one car? How could something like that just leak out? That sounds like such a strange explanation. If it had leaked out, wouldn’t they easily be able to determine that simply by backtracking on the trip? Yet, they aren’t saying that.
OH MY GOD.... we should panic.
All in one car? Idiot, that is maybe a 5th of the capacity of one hopper car. Entire train loads of it pass you buy every day.
It’s granular fertilizer like you buy in a bad at Lowes.
So basically, one car had a mechanical problem with the gate and a 5th of the load in he car was lost along the tracks.
Of course they know it is along the tracks... but think they will tell you that?
Every jurisdiction along that route would sue the rail line, for dangerous fertilizing of the grass and Fedzilla would line up to help them.
But by all means, lets turn this into a drama.
GMTA
;)
False ststement.
1) I consider the possibility that the contents drained out the bottom of improperly sealed hopper cars to be entirely likely.
2) Epstein didn't kill himself. Neither did Vince Foster or Andrew Breitbart.
If it made it to Oregon, it had to go down I5. The cartels would have it.
(It could be the thieves intend it be spread in the wheat fields, and they’ll get a pretty penny for it.
Most rail cars can have a gross weight (the total weight of the load, including
the weight of the rail car itself) of up to 286,000 pounds. Heavy axle rail cars
comparison, the federal gross vehicle weight limit for trucks traveling on the
interstate is 80,000 pounds.
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