Dyno Nobel says it believes the material — transported in pellet form in a covered hopper car similar to those used to ship coal — fell from the car on the way to a rail siding called Saltdale, about 30 miles from the town of Mojave in eastern Kern County.
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I'm looking at a picture of the sort of rail car the stuff would have been transported in. It looks like a coal car - only this one is white. Along the bottom the car has what I'm going to call hatches. When it gets to where it is going, the car is parked over top of a 'hole' leading to some form of transport. One of the hatches is opened, and the stuff in the car pours out and into the transport. (Move the car, and open the next hatch . . .)
I see it as possible that one of the hatches might have cracked open a touch . . . or a malicious character cracked open one or more of the hatches . . . and the rail car spread its load of fertilizer all along the tracks from Wyoming to Californica. And if it rained between the time it got spread across America and the time it was missed . . . .
Hmmmm . . wonder if the grass is going to grow better along those rails.
We’ve seen a few concerning train stories under the Biden administration and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, including the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio that caused environmental damage in the town. Despite Joe Biden making a bizarre comment and then saying he would go, he has yet to visit the town. The administration hasn’t exactly inspired a lot of confidence with the way they have been handling things and they’ve caught a lot of justifiable flak for their delayed and deficient reaction to the disaster.
Now add to that a truly weird story on their watch.
About 30 tons — or 60,000 pounds — of ammonium nitrate went missing from a rail car during transit.
If ammonium nitrate sounds familiar, it should. It’s a fertilizer. But it also can be used as an explosive if it’s subjected to a fuel source or subjected to heat. That’s why it’s been involved in the past in explosive accidents as well as in intentional attacks such as at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, a bombing that killed 168 people and injured 850. That explosion only used roughly 5,000 pounds and it was mixed with motor fuel, then detonated in the parking garage — thus the reason 60,000 pounds going missing is raising a lot of eyebrows. That could do a heck of a lot of damage in the wrong hands.
The ammonium nitrate was being shipped from Cheyenne, Wyoming to California. It left Cheyenne on April 12. But the company shipping it, Dyno Nobel, said when it arrived two weeks later, the car holding the ammonium nitrate was empty.
The Federal Railroad Administration, the California Public Utilities Commission, Union Pacific, and Dyno Nobel are all looking into the disappearance of the material now and the car was sent back to Wyoming to investigate it.
The car made multiple stops on its journey to California.
“We take this matter seriously and will work to understand how it happened and how it can be prevented from occurring again,” a company spokesperson said.
This story is just a little crazy. How could they possibly lose that much? And it was all in one car? How could something like that just leak out? That sounds like such a strange explanation. If it had leaked out, wouldn’t they easily be able to determine that simply by backtracking on the trip? Yet, they aren’t saying that. And if it can just leak out, that’s not particularly reassuring either. How could they be securing something in such a fashion? But for that much to be missing is more than a little concerning.
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