[Scan-DC] train

[Steve Rigby]

nightwatch wrote:

> North East, MD (WJZ) Major concern north of Baltimore Saturday 
> after a CSX train carrying hazardous chemicals comes off the 
> tracks. It happens just after noon in Northeast, in Cecil County.
>  The 72 car CSX train was traveling from Richmond, Virginia to 
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when at least twenty cars derailed. 
> Eleven of the cars contained harzardous materials; two of them 
> were holding phosphoric acid, which spilled. For a time...water 
> supply to parts of Northeast was turned off. Residents in nearly 
> twenty homes were evacuated, but have since been allowed to 
> return. At this point, the cause of the derailment is under 
> investigation.

   I recall reading an article in the paper about 10 or 12 years ago
that told of how some approximately 140 or so hazardous materials
incidents that require evacuations occur daily in the United States.
Lord knows what that figure is today.

   Steve