Photos of deadly Amtrak derailment: hazardous tank cars a close call?

May 13, 2015 Roger Straw    Benicia Independent 

PHILADELPHIA AMTRAK CRASH SCENE: IS ANYONE QUESTIONING THE CLOSE PROXIMITY OF TANK CARS?

 

With courage and strength to survivors and the grieving … it looks like it might’ve been much worse.  Check out the photos.  What was in those tank cars at the time of the accident?  What is typically stored in tank cars in that railyard so close to the tracks?

 

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also: Video of  Raw images from scene of Amtrak derailment  here 

 

Update:

Witness to Amtrak 188 crash: Train missed ‘tanker by maybe 50 yards’

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Holly Yan and Don Melvin, CNN, May 13, 2015

...The train hit power lines and wiped out a support for a pedestrian bridge, leaving it hanging, Lauman told the station.

“They were pulling people, just lifeless,” he said of the rescue efforts.

But it could have been far worse in Lauman’s estimation.

“It missed that parked tanker by maybe 50 yards,” he told KYW. “An Amtrak guy came by and he was telling me it turns out those tankers are full, and if that engine would’ve hit that tanker, it would’ve set off an explosion like no other.”.... more here   

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