Explosion at world’s largest railyard in Nebraska prompts evacuations because of heavy toxic smoke

AP ^ | 9/14/23

[EBH]

One of the containers involved was carrying perchloric acid, which is used in explosives as well as a variety of food and drug products, Tysver said. The car that exploded had been stationary for a couple hours beforehand, authorities said.

Joanna Le Moine, deputy director of the Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency, said officials are monitoring the situation and the weather to determine which direction the smoke will go “to help keep responders and citizens safe out of an overabundance of caution.”

The railyard where the explosion happened covers 2,850 acres (1,153 hectares) and stretches as wide as eight miles (13 km) at one point. A few years ago, an eight-story tall observation tower was built to allow people to watch thousands of railcars be sorted from one train to another on Union Pacific’s key east-west corridor.

One of the volunteers who was working inside the Golden Spike Tower Thursday told the North Platte Telegraph newspaper that he saw a “big ball of flame” billow up while he was talking to someone.

[EBH]

Tell me again ....

we are not at war.

Just not going to believe my own media these days.

Accident...right?

[Highest Authority]

Noting to see here, move along. Just a coincidence. Can’t release details .. under ongoing investigation. Move along.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Yes, it appears someone is blowing things up, doesn’t it?

[Jan_Sobieski]

Railcar Spontaneous Combustion

[Justa]

“What is the most explosive acid?

The explosive characteristics of Picric acid were discovered early. In 1885, experiments with picric acid were conducted in Lydd, England and the English adopted it as an explosive material called Lyddite in 1888. It was used extensively in bombs and grenades during World War I (7).”

[A strike]

Damn,... no WEF here !

-fJRoberts-

[Governor Dinwiddie]

North Platte is where Buffalo Bill’s ranch is located. Mostly wide open spaces and prairie around there. If something had to explode that is not a bad place for it to occur.

[iontheball]

The car that exploded had been stationary for a couple hours beforehand, authorities said. Just sitting there static and goes off??
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An easy target from above.

[Obadiah]

Green laser?

[CodeToad]

Far too many infrastructure fires and explosions to be accidents.

[Joe 6-pack]

One of the nazi saboteur targets during WWII was the horseshoe curve outside of Altoona, PA. They hoped that it would create a major bottleneck in cargos bound for the ports of NY, Philadelphia and Baltimore and disrupt the US war effort and economy.

Nazis didn't get it done, but it looks like Team Bootyjudge is going to succeed where the 3rd reich failed.

[deport]

To keep people out of the broader evacuation zone, North Platte police said,
Nebraska Department of Transportation workers posted barricades in late
afternoon on both West A and West Front streets at Lakeview Boulevard.

But U.S. 30 reopened to traffic about 5 p.m., and a text notice was issued about
15 minutes later saying the fire was out and the evacuations had been lifted.

SOURCE

[deport]

Compared to the past 10 years, the 28 incidents in 2020 is the
second-highest number of large-loss fires or explosions, the highest
being 37 incidents in 2018. Over the past 10 years, 24 fires have
occurred that each resulted in a loss of more than $100 million.

Them fires be burning..Head for the high ground

[metmom]

Prepper ping

[rktman]

Has the epa and bootyjuice declared it a non event yet?

[EBH]

It is a major rail hub. wide open spaces or not.

clog the rail system

clog the panama canal

hack the trucker system

Dinwiddie...C’mon man put the points together even though any of my posts get pulled out of the headlines.

gee...what supply chain