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Topic: Conrail Wreck, Paulsboro, NJ (Read 145 times) |
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ClydeDET
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Looks kike Conrail put a couple of cars into Mantua Creek at Paulsboro (anybody know if Mantua Creek has anything to do with the old model railroad manufacturer known as - Mantua...?) earlier today. One car wsa breached and released a bunch of vinyl chloride, which is nasty in high concentrations or if you breath it.
Bridge is interesting, it is a swing bridge, but just one leaf, and pretty clearly pretty old. Story is the bridge collapsed, derailing the train.
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Bluewater
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Well gosh darn it Clyde, you beat me to it! I posted in Regional Ops about the same thing. What is Vinyl Chloride used for anyway?
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Yes, There really is a Kalamazoo, Michigan
You'd better believe it too! 
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CandF
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Among other things, poly vinyl cloride pipe (PVC)
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ClydeDET
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on Dec 4th, 2012, 7:32am, CandF wrote: (Click here for original message)| Among other things, poly vinyl cloride pipe (PVC) |
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And as a Hazmat (not that i wasnt to breath the stuff, pretty curst irritating to the reswpiratory tract), fairly low on the totem pole. Nothing like, say, HF (saw a car marked for HF come through town today, dunno if it was loaded or not).
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