This is not about model trains but this is the general talk area so I guess it will be ok.
We got lucky here in Vegas yesterday-- A full tank car of Chlorine gas managed to get loose & rolled free for over 25 miles --right thru the middle of Las Vegas before it was stopped.
It rolled away --not sure why yet --UP is considering it an accident, from the yard in Arden , south of Las Vegas & a good bit higher than the valley , so it hit 50 -60 mph, as it came thru . It eventualy hit an upgrade & slowed enough that someone jumped on it & set the hand brake.
They figure that if it had derailed & hit something & ruptured that there would have been 74,000 to 91,000 fatalities .
We got lucky here in Vegas yesterday-- A full tank car of Chlorine gas managed to get loose & rolled free for over 25 miles --right thru the middle of Las Vegas before it was stopped.
It rolled away --not sure why yet --UP is considering it an accident, from the yard in Arden , south of Las Vegas & a good bit higher than the valley , so it hit 50 -60 mph, as it came thru . It eventualy hit an upgrade & slowed enough that someone jumped on it & set the hand brake.
They figure that if it had derailed & hit something & ruptured that there would have been 74,000 to 91,000 fatalities .