It is in a bad spot. I grew up near Lynchburg and know the spot well where the train derailed, if it had derailed two or three miles further south it would’ve ended up in my grandmother’s house’s front yard.
The area is an old industrial area that the city has been trying to “redevelop,” old factories and foundries and a “riverwalk” along the James. Downtown Lynchburg sits on a very steep hill on the south bank of the James and the tracks are at the bottom along the river. I expect in addition to everything else that this has dumped a lot of crude into the James River as well and that’s going to cause environmental issues all the way to Richmond and possibly beyond to the Chesapeake.
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Thanks for relating that.
In one of the video shots from a distance it looked like there was burning crude on the river, hopefully the vast majority of it will burn.