Crude oil boom has tankers rumbling through Holly Hills neighborhood

[Sherman A1]

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/crude-oil-boom-has-tankers-rumbling-through-holly-hills-neighborhood/article_aed9175e-f5fb-5309-a1d1-0ba9cea3ef3e.html

ST. LOUIS • Judith Studebaker knew there were railroad tracks running behind her house when she bought in the Holly Hills subdivision 16 years ago.

But until the past few years, traffic was fairly light — mostly Amtrak liners and a few freight trains just beyond her backyard fence. Later, freight cars loaded with rock and other products began rumbling past.

Beginning about two years ago, Studebaker and her Arendes Drive neighbors noticed locomotives pulling long lines of black tank cars behind their homes.

“I kept wondering,” she said, “what was in the tankers?”

[Stuart G]

1. Thanks for posting this..k and r. I wonder if a derailment happens,

with this warning, what the railroads will say?
I sure hope what happened in Canada, does not happen here.
As the story says, "They can't even put out the fires."

[Sherman A1]

2. My pleasure

I don't really know what would happen in a derailment situation and apparently the experts don't know either. I do know that these trains pass by my workplace as well as nearby my co-workers homes daily, which is a cause of some concern.