U.S. Logistics Shenanigans: Investigators ask ‘Where did all the Contamination go?’ More Derailments!

Incomplete list of reports, updates and videos about numerous train derailments within the United States, last week of April 2023!

CALIFORNIA: Union Pacific train derails in Granada Hills.

Fatal crash involving passenger train!

ILLINOIS: Tuscola fire responds to train derailment.

Passenger train derails in Chicago’s Union Station.

MAINE:

15APR2023, CPKC derailment in northern Maine. Photo via Jackman-Moose River Fire & Rescue Department.

State officials accuse Canadian-Pacific-Kansas-City (CPKC) of violating environmental rules during derailment cleanup!

OHIO: Norfolk Southern says clean-up will cost at least $387-million!

East Liverpool residents upset that toxic waste from derailment is being incinerated in ‘their backyard’.

PENNSYLVANIA: Most train derailments happen near major rivers, a new study shows.

Altoona Fire Chief reveals that rail companies are not required to communicate with local emergency responders!

Independent water testing claims no contamination from the Ohio derailment/fire, yet also questions ‘where did the contamination go’?

WASHINGTON: Local TV station discovers that between 1975 and 2022, there were 577 accidents in The Evergreen State with trains carrying hazardous materials, 23 of them with hazmat releases!

WISCONSIN: Just days after BNSF swore their rail lines were safe, a massive derailment!

Approximately 2.5-million pounds of debris from last week’s train derailment is getting processed at the La Crosse County Landfill!

BNSF derailment blamed on flooding, governor praises BNSF?

U.S. Logistics Shenanigans, March 17th through 29th, 2023: A WEEK-N-A-HALF OF TRAIN DERAILMENTS!