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Sadly they don’t need to derail to make a mess. They do keep a decent eye on the more serious chemicals they haul, but after 15 years working as an outside contractor for csx I’ve seen a lot of crap leaking from cars, and the eic (employee in charge) never had a problem telling what it was if ask. I moved a lot of equipment on and off the rr bridges from New Orleans to Pensacola, Jacksonville, DC area, Philadelphia, and Buffalo, NY. They got some mighty hefty fines for hydraulic leaks over the rivers and switched to a very bio friendly fluid a number of years ago. The bridge over black water in Milton, FL had the wrong fluid shipped to it, once it was noticed as non bio friendly it had to be drained and replaced, I still have some of that fluid left I use in my boom truck and other equipment I own….

 

You're a flat earther. Of course you believe this BS.

 

Goes into a settling pond first, they use to be pretty sloppy but have really gotten better over the years. Most mines have multiple ponds, I’m speaking of underground. The strip mines have catch ponds as well in my neck of the woods to catch run off.

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The funny thing about coal plant emissions is they put out more radiation than nuclear power plants. Which technically anything over 0 is higher, but it's not insignificant.

 

Well I can explain that to you if you would like….?

 

I should have said I can explain part of it, Lord knows I don’t it all but have experienced a lot over the years. With your comment I feel you have a good head on your shoulders…, you are correct for the most part.

If you look closely at a section of rail most of it has a date showing the year it was made. We still have as well as other states rail that is nearly 100 years old, and these rail beds were originally built for the steam locomotives. Multiple times I hauled equipment in to the same place over a 5 year span after a derail. As an example… up around the new river gorge some of the rail beds have very tight curves,

As a csx man explained to me, the modern 6 axle locomotive can’t make the curve without forcing the rails farther apart, and after so many times the rail gets loose, and eventually a locomotive drops a set of wheels off the track. Lot of tight curves here as well as other states I’m sure. And yes, upkeep is not always up to par, that’s why Amtrak only runs certain parts of the rail. I’ve seen cars wiggling side to side like nobody’s business, as well as cars looking as though the rails were built across corrugated tin.

You speaking of Massachusetts…. I was on a job on the north side of Birmingham in a place called Tarrant, we were in the yard there by the stone quarry.

While eating our lunch the lead electrician got a call from the company owner. This is how goofy csx can be at times…. When he got off the phone he looked at me and said you ain’t going to believe this!! Then started to explain what the call was about.

Csx had called with a complaint about an obstruction in the top of one of those 100’ light poles with the big row of lights on each side. We had to get back home and get a rental car since tools were not really needed. When we got up there to Boston and found the yard electrician he started explaining the situation. Some kind of hawk or osprey had built its nest in the top of the light pole right on top of the trap door. They had us drive up there from Alabama to give a dang bird an eviction notice and tear its nest out! We just had to look at each other and laugh.

The bottom rung on the pole was about 15’ up so the csx guy was looking for a ladder for me, I was pretty lean back then. While waiting I got back a ways and tried to zoom in with my 35mm to see what if I could actually see the bird, and I did see 3 heads pop up occasionally and could tell it was the offspring. When the parent bird came flying in I couldn’t make out what it was but it sure wasn’t a blue jay, it had a pretty big wing span. As the csx worker pulled up my coworkers phone rang, when he got off the phone he said we were to abort this mission. CSX corporate called saying the bird was not to be disturbed while it had offspring in the nest, sure made me happy I was dreading being up 100’ arguing with a dang bird!!

I’m trying to remember the Highway that was elevated over that yard but can’t remember the route number but that was in Boston….