Sentences with phrase «cars of a freight train»

Nearly three dozen cars of a freight train bound for Selkirk, NY and carrying hazardous materials careened off the tracks in a small Pennsylvania town, igniting fires in some rail cars and a garage and forcing emergency officials to evacuate the whole town.

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The worst chlorine gas accident in the country occurred in 2005, when 18 freight train cars derailed and released 120,000 pounds of chlorine gas in the mill town of Graniteville, S.C. Nine people were killed and at least 1,400 people were exposed, resulting in more than 550 people treated at hospitals, including some with serious lung injuries.
The torque rating is 590 lb - ft, but the cars pulls as strongly as a freight train at any speed in any of the eight gears.
FRA plans to issue an additional NPRM based on the consensus recommendations of the Securement Working Group and approved by the full RSAC that would prohibit certain unattended freight trains or standing freight cars on main track or sidings and require railroads to adopt and implement procedures to verify securement of trains and unattended equipment for emergency responders.
The closing laps of the two - hour, 45 - minute race featured a Porsche - Corvette - Ferrari freight train as the three cars raced nose - to - tail.
With seven miles of cars, including enough freight cars to form a circus «town,» The Boundless is the longest train in the world.»
Well known for his freight trains, cars, boats and cityscapes, many of the artist's works pop off the canvas, appearing to be three dimensional.
On the other side of the river, a freight train with at least 100 cars made its way south during my visit.
Coal is also stored on - site at mines and coal export terminals, and roughly 67 percent of it is delivered by train, typically in uncovered freight cars.
Boats, planes, freight trains and trucks, construction, mining and agricultural machines, most cars and light trucks with spirit and muscle (i.e., hot V - 8's), motorcycles, motorhomes, snowmobiles, ATV's, all military vehicles, go - carts, golf course and sports field grass mowers, etc will always require and use liquid fossils fuels becasue these fuels have HIGH ENERGY DENSITY and are easily prepared from readily recoverable crude oil, which exits abundantly free in Nature, by fractional distillation and blending low energy processes that do not require the breaking of chemical bonds.
Yeah, some things are going to be taken off the rails (mile long coal trains, being one of them), but over the road freight needs to go ON the rails and more trucks pass any given busy interstate highway point than rail cars (other than coal trains...) of an equivalent capacity.
This is a set of seven mini freight train cars.
Cdn Organzied Real Estate (CORE) and most «protectionist» realtors are so focused on the legal issue and hoping for a legal resolution that they're completely oblivious to the free enterprise competition - driven 200 - car freight train that's bearing down on them with the perhaps unintended goal of obliterating the real estate industry as we know it.
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