AP video on defects on the DOT-111 Tank Car

[myfavscr]

Nimbys in the video discuss how unsafe they feel with freight trains running through their neighborhoods. It also describes how the rail industry is not doing anything to improve the
the tank cars design because they don't want to spend the money.

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/ ... cmsn%7c%7c

[tahawus84]

aww boo hoo you witnessed a train accident and scared of the big bad trains.. a plane can crash into your town, a truck can crash in your town get over it life is full of dangers. funny how they seem to be upset that car owners wont spend 25k per car , if the railroads bowed down to every nimby request they would be bankrupt.

[umtrr-author]

From a purely journalistic point of view, this report is full of weasel words.

"Major" defects-- define "major" please, what does that mean?

And that's just for starters.

I also wasn't aware that double-stacks (shown in the moving trains) were "tankers" but that's just petty details.