13 tanker cars from this oil train derailed. hundreds of gallons of crude oil were spilled, and that oil train forced the evacuation of 35 homes in the immediate area there just outside of milwaukee. so two day, saturday, sunday, two separate big train derailments in wisconsin. and thank god, nokes ploeded in these latest derailments over the weekend. there were no apocalyptic fire balls like we re used to seeing. but here s one little piece of this to tuck under your pell low when you go to sleep tonight. just sleep on this tonight. that oil train that derailed this weekend in watertown, wisconsin, that train originated in a place called newtown, north dakota. newtown is in northwest, north dakota. it s where a lot of back-end crude oil comes from now. that train left new town, north dakota, and it headed east towards wisconsin which is where it ultimately derailed and spilled all its oil, even if it didn t, mercifully blow up. here s new town on the left, the
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in february of this year a man named randy fitswater and his wife were at home in west virginia just outside charleston when they looked out their window and they saw this. he said the noise was so loud and the explosion was so big he was sure a full size jet line her crashed into the ground across the river from their house. he learned whether they got through to 911 that it had actually been a train derailment, an oil train derailment. a train with 107 tanker cars carrying crude oil had been flung off the tracks, 27 cars rerailed, 15 ruptured. only one person was injured in that huge explosion but 1,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes for days while that oil train fire burned itself out. the fire was too big and too hot to put out for days. they had to let it burn. that oil train derailment in west virginia was the latest a string of disasters like that
across the country. a string of oil train apocalyptic crashes led the federal government to crackdown on things like oil train speed and beefed up standards for the tanker cars transporting the oil. but this crash in west virginia turns out this was not about speed or the rail cars. turns out this one was caused by something more galling. the federal railroad administration released the findings of their investigation into that mt. carbon, west virginia derailment. and what they found was that what happened there was caused by the railroad tracks. it wasn t some mysterious problem. it wasn t some unforeseeable freak thing. it was something the railroad knew about. csx owns the tracks. they hired a contractor to inspect the raldz. the good news, i guess, is that contractor did detect something being wrong in the rails there. twice. not once but twice that contractor detected a flaw in the rail in the specific spot where that derailment happened.
his wife were at home in west virginia just outside charleston when they looked out their window and they saw this. he said the noise was so loud and the explosion was so big he was sure a full size jetliner crashed into the ground across the river from their house. he learned whether they got through to 911 that it had actually been a train derailment, an oil train derailment. a train with 107 tanker cars carrying crude oil had been flung off the tracks, 27 cars derailed, 15 ruptured. only one person was injured in that huge explosion but 1,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes for days while that oil train fire burned itself out. the fire was too big and too hot to put out for days. they had to let it burn. that oil train derailment in west virginia was the latest a string of disasters like that across the country.