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This time it's Missouri. And this one involves the two Western Bigs..

 

Two freight trains collide in Missouri, seven injured

 
 

Sat May 25, 2013 12:08pm EDT

(Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in southeastern Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when several rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities said.

None of the seven people hurt - two aboard the trains and five people who had been in cars on the two-lane overpass - suffered life-threatening injuries, Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said in a statement.

"One train T-boned the other one and caused it to derail, and the derailed train hit a pillar which caused the overpass to collapse," Sheriff's dispatcher Clay Slipis said of the pre-dawn crash near Chaffee, about 15 miles southwest of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

The crash, which involved BNSF Railway Co and Union Pacific trains, also sparked a fire when diesel fuel leaked from one of the train engines, Slipis said.

Just over a week ago a commuter train derailed in Connecticut, striking another train and injuring more than 70 people during the evening rush hour.

Then on Thursday, a truck crash triggered the collapse of a bridge in Washington state, sending two cars plunging into the frigid Skagit River and raising concerns about the nation's aging infrastructure. Three people were rescued.

In Missouri, the National Transportation Safety Board said it had dispatched a team to investigate the train crash. Neither BNSF or Union Pacific officials could immediately be reached for comment.

A regional CBS affiliate, KFVS12, said that the Union Pacific train had been hauling vehicles and auto parts from Illinois to Texas, while the other train was carrying scrap metal.



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Thus far no comment from Gus... He musta been napping, just for a few seconds! So BurningJournaldotcom hadda rely on 'other' sources... Coupla pics:

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Other pics, while we await words of wisdom from Gus melonas, or Uncle Warre... Sorry, Mr. Buffet is a 'hands-off' owner of 2LARRCO, who allows others to speak on his behalf!

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Think we both hit on this story about the same time.
There is some "gnarly" celestial weather happening
this weekend. The "background Uranus square Pluto"
combined with the "foreground Sun square Neptune".
Whats interesting in both bridge collapses (I-5 and this
one in Missouri), that it took an "outside force" to
cause the failure. The bridges would be just fine if something
dint knock them down. What happened to the I-5 bridge
was an accident clear and simple with zero intent on
creating the mess now. Trains derailing into a bridge structure
has a good chance of bringing something down and no
way intentional. So situations can develop for every
body when the stars are in "combination".

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This might've been more interesting if it had been about a real train wreck. Yep. Like "Troll's Favorite" train wreck, Lindsay Lohan, instead of railroad trains crashing...

Sorry ta disappoint ya pal! We have an entirely 'new' replacement wreck chiquita for ya in our Daily Phorum though! It's just starting, so hurry on over ta pick up on the latest news...



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Move along... nothing to see here...

http://www.marionstar.com/usatoday/article/2370765



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What the railroad industry doesnt account for...are the
celestial influences. If BNSF wanted me to be their
"celestial advisor"...think I would take that job but
they dont think that way...no railroads do.

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