If you were on the MSN, CNN or MSNBC home pages this morning at around 10:00, you would have seen this headline under "Breaking News" - KY train derailment, fire prompt road closure. Flames, black smoke seen rising from wreckage: area is evacuated. Wow. Yeah, wow.
The train derailment happened in a town just a few minutes south of Louisville called Shepherdsville. A CSX train consisting of 80 cars and 4 locomotives derailed, and a quite a few of the cars exploded and burst into flames. A number of cars on the train were carrying flammable liquids and gases. Hazardous materials carried on the train included one empty chlorine car; three cars of liquid propane and four cars of butadiene, an industrial chemical used to make synthetic rubber. Neighborhoods were evacuated, nearby schools bussed their students to other schools, and I-65 was closed. It was quite the drama in the area today.
Until this happened, people were talking about 4 barges that drifted from their towboat over night, but once the derailment happened, nobody cared that one of those barges full of yet more chemicals sunk in the Ohio River.
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