RailKevin wrote:No one has asked the most obvious question--why wasn't the sand on a train instead of a truck? That whole mess could have been avoided!As a former shipper of HUGE (or YUGE, depending upon one's preferences) quantities of sand and gravel I can say, without knowing a damn thing about the origin or destination of that particular load of sand, the reason the material was being shipped by truck instead of train was: (dramatic drum roll) bad rail rates!
Of course, this was well before Staggers allowed rail companies to price themselves out of the vast majority of sand and stone shipments, so it could well be any number of reasons.