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ARVADA, Colo. - A runaway Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail car tore along five miles of track in Arvada this morning at an estimated speed of 40 miles per hour, an Arvada police spokesman told the Denver Post.

"It was flying at such a pace that the gates at the street crossings weren't activating," said Sgt. Jeff Monzingo, spokesman for the Arvada Police Department.

He said after the police department received several calls from alarmed motorists, "officers tried to get in front" of the runaway rail car to warn drivers who might cross the tracks.

Heading east through Arvada, the runaway rail car headed into Adams County where it derailed, Monzingo said.

The first calls to Arvada police came in at 8:04 a.m.

During the Arvada police chase, said Monzingo, railroad officials told Arvada officers that the single car would not activate the crossing arms at intersections.

Steve Forsberg, spokesman for the BNSF, said that the car was loaded with plastic pellets, which are not considered hazardous.

He said the pellets are used in the manufacture of various plastic products.

A switching crew was working some distance from the rail car when it started rolling, Forsberg said.

He said BNSF is investigating how the accident occurred.

The first reports to the railroad of the incident came about 9 a.m., he said.

No one was injured, and no rail traffic in Denver and Colorado were affected, he added.

(This item appeared in the Denver Post Oct. 9, 2009.)

 

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Was told this morning at work that it was a beer barley car that escaped from Golden......



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Personally, Snippy doesn't give a phukk what you were "told". It was a carload plastic pellets used in the manufacture of various plastic products.

Stevie Forrestberg follows a long tradition of honest RR spokesmen.

Like Honest John Bromley. Snippy believes.


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Maybe it was plastic beer barley.....

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After all, they don't make REAL beer in Golden, do they. I thought so.

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Snippy wrote:

Personally, Snippy doesn't give a phukk what you were "told". It was a carload plastic pellets used in the manufacture of various plastic products.

Stevie Forrestberg follows a long tradition of honest RR spokesmen.

Like Honest John Bromley. Snippy believes.



I stand corrected.... hmm    Steve Forrestberg is right...... plastic pellets are not hazardous.... even when weighing 130 tons and traveling over 40 mph.....

FMB thumb.jpg Snippy for setting the record straight.....!!



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All natural plastic barley pellets! I can just see Slim Pickens riding that car across all those nonprotected crossings. YEEEEEEEHAAAAW!

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So, did they figure out the cause of the derailment?

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Freddie Krueger wrote:

So, did they figure out the cause of the derailment?


it didn't so much derail as hop....biggrin

 



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It hydroplaned!

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FMB wrote:

Snippy wrote:

Personally, Snippy doesn't give a phukk what you were "told". It was a carload plastic pellets used in the manufacture of various plastic products.

Stevie Forrestberg follows a long tradition of honest RR spokesmen.

Like Honest John Bromley. Snippy believes.



I stand corrected.... hmm    Steve Forrestberg is right...... plastic pellets are not hazardous.... even when weighing 130 tons and traveling over 40 mph.....

FMB thumb.jpg Snippy for setting the record straight.....!!


-- Edited by FMB on Tuesday 13th of October 2009 04:52:04 PM

 



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Freddie Krueger wrote:

So, did they figure out the cause of the derailment?


it didn't so much derail as hop....biggrin

 


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