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To: Travis McGee
Remember last year when a train loaded with HAZMAT crashed and burned in a tunnel under Baltimore? Imagine an ANFO container bomb in the middle of that HAZMAT cargo, going off "contained" in a tunnel under a city.

Or how about maybe five or ten such containers goingoff at the same time on the same train with all the other stuff aboard such a freight train? Such is possible and easily arranged.

Are they bringing LNG tankers back into the terminal in New England? I know they suspended that for a while. Would LNG really explode, or just burn back to the tank, and then gassify the LNG as it came out and burn in a spectacular fashion?

When they brought up the whole issue in public hearings a few years back it was pointed out that given a sufficent breach of the tank it would be possible to have the tanker explode and have a total detonation of about 15 to 20 twenty KT equivalent. According to Local notice to mariners they have resumed.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

44 posted on 04/15/2002 10:02:49 AM PDT by harpseal
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To: harpseal;NMC EXP
How close do they offload the LNG tankers to a certain New England city?

Imagine that HAZMAT train in the tunnel under the city, with the ANFO containers detonating at each end.

46 posted on 04/15/2002 10:06:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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