Another derailment

[Oliver88]

Get the pipelines built.

Glad to hear everybody in Claire and area are safe.

[oneoff]

Maybe a lot of pipelines are planned to be built in Canada so that oil can be put on trains where residents have laid their foot down on being in their back yard.

Its probably a lot safer and efficient to move oil by pipeline; but "dirty" oil and environmental zealots have control of the day right now.

[sumdumguy]

When insurance companies quit insuring railcars of crude, then just watch the pipelines get built. There may be some whining at the fringes, but so be it.

[bucket]

If track maintenance was the cause I would hope the insurance company would not be paying.

[sumdumguy]

We can imagine the weight of 100 oil cars and at the same time, we know what the excessive moisture has done to fields with sinkholes all over and springs shooting out of hills. Couple that with a heavy liquid sloshing from side to side in the cars, and though I am no expert, I suspect that this is just the beginning as the track beds deteriorate with all the traffic under those conditions. Each time the dips probably get pounded out a little more.