Another train accident occurred in the USA, now carrying gasoline and propane.

According to the American publication Associated Press, yesterday in the United States on the border of two states - Arizona and New Mexico - an accident occurred with a freight train transporting flammable materials.

According to the publication, the train cars contained propane gas and gasoline. Footage circulated online showed up to ten train carriages derailed and some of them on fire. The Associated Press reports that six carriages were engulfed in flames. Fire crews arrived at the scene.

The train was carrying propane and gasoline. Half a dozen railroad cars caught fire and continued to burn for several hours.

New Mexico State Police Lt. Phil Vargas said.

Due to the risk of fire and explosion of the remaining carriages, authorities closed the main highway connecting the two states, and residents of nearby houses were evacuated.

There have been no reports of casualties yet. The reasons for the accident are also unclear. The incident is reported to be under investigation.

Recall that in January there was a train accident in San Francisco when a high-speed train derailed and caught fire. About ten people were injured then.

On average, there is at least one train accident every 10 days in the United States this year. This is an anti-record for the last few years.

Comments

[sgr291158]

This is probably a response to the supply of missiles to Ukraine.

[ProkletyiPirat]

absolutely not, this is all due to the specifics of laws in the USA in the field of railway regulation, in the USA there is increased regulation of passenger transport and reduced regulation of freight transport, especially where it cannot harm civilians or where this harm is minimal, therefore roads and trains are used in the “until they break down” mode.

[Fitter65]

Quote: ProkletyiPirat

absolutely not, this is all due to the specifics of laws in the USA in the field of railway regulation, in the USA there is increased regulation of passenger transport and reduced regulation of freight transport, especially where it cannot harm civilians or where this harm is minimal, therefore roads and trains are used in the “until they break down” mode.

Our access roads, which are used once a year, look and are in better condition than their main roads...

[ProkletyiPirat]

Quote: Fitter65

Quote: ProkletyiPirat

this is all due to the specifics of laws in the USA in the field of railway regulation

Our access roads, which are used once a year, look and are in better condition than their main roads...

And what? but in the USA the length of railways is greater, and many times longer (link below). Actually, for this purpose, they introduced the voiced specifics that allow you to save money on quality but spend more on quantity.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B3

[svarog77]

Electrification of railways is very indicative...

[ProkletyiPirat]

Electrification is useful only for frequent and fast transportation; for freight trains this is not so critical; even the cost of saving on fuel is not as critical as the ability to provide a route to production/quarry for minimal money.

[Fitter65]

Quote: ProkletyiPirat

And what? but in the USA the length of railways is greater, and many times longer (link below). Actually, for this purpose, they introduced the voiced specifics that allow you to save money on quality but spend more on quantity.

Well, more length, so what? The maintenance of this farm is at the level of sludge. Wooden sleepers!!!!!! Electrified 0,92%!!! Signaling systems, as our specialists say who were “lucky enough” to go to “exchange experience” in the USA, are approximately at the level of the USSR in the early 60s. For the last year and a half, I’ve often been sitting in the chats of our railway workers on weekends, watching videos, reading articles from our various railway sites. It turns out interesting. Yes, they have some positive aspects, but otherwise they are terrible. Even Ukrzaliznytsia looks much better in terms of traffic safety than railways in the USA...

[ProkletyiPirat]

so that's the point “It’s not the railways themselves that are important, but those business projects for which they provide logistics” after all, this is all money into the economy and jobs., and the conventional “quarry” doesn’t even care what kind of sleepers there are or whether there is electrification, as long as there is a road and logistics.

Quote: Fitter65

Even Ukrzaliznytsia looks much better in terms of traffic safety than railways in the USA...

Yeah, just there are massive accidents on freight trains, not passenger trains, which I wrote about above.

[Fitter65]

Quote: ProkletyiPirat

Yeah, but there are massive accidents there on freight trains, not passenger trains, which is what I wrote about above.

So they don’t have massive passenger traffic. Where are the mass accidents of passenger trains?

On April 8, 2017, at about 11 p.m., the Moscow-Brest long-distance train and the Moscow-Usovo electric train collided in the west of Moscow. As a result of the collision, more than 50 people were injured, 12 of them were hospitalized. A passenger train locomotive and three electric train cars derailed.

This is the latest from the mass... And the fact that they have massive freight train accidents, does this indicate that they are great? Or like, where? Yet again

According to American federal statistics for 2021 and 2022, on average, about three trains derail in the country every day. 800 people die a year. This is one of the highest rates in the world,

Ну и наша статистика за 2022 год https://zdmira.com/articles/otchet-mszhd-2022-statistika-proisshestvij-na-zheleznykh-dorogakh#:~:text=%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%20%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C%20%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85%20%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8,%D0%B2%202020%20%D0%B8%202021%20%D0%B3%D0%B3.
Of course, you can object - we have fewer railways in Russia, and therefore there are fewer emergency situations. but if you recalculate the ratio of incidents to mileage, then we generally have no accidents.

[Thrifty]

Good, but not enough! This needs to happen every day, and the trains will burn to the ground! Glory to the US partisans!!!

[Zoldat_A]

It's not even interesting to discuss. The carriages were still flying downhill, but “the whole world” already knew who was to blame in principle and who personally.

[dimy44]

The fact is that the US railway is very worn out, they themselves know it, billions are needed to put it in order. Another thing is that these billions are being used in a completely different direction, and this is a topic that can interest their taxpayers.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: dimy44

The fact is that the US railway is very worn out, they themselves know it, billions are needed to put it in order.

How many roads can be repaired in the USA for 61 lard dollars?
Although, I think it’s five times less than ours, it’s probably also a lot. Let the states of Arizona and New Mexico ask this question to Grandfather Self-propelled...

Republican US Congressman from Arizona Paul Gosar was outraged by the behavior of some colleagues who defend the interests of Ukrainians more actively than US citizens.
https://lenta.ru/news/2023/01/29/gosar/

- more than a year ago, by the way...

[Machito]

Burn, it's clear,
To not go out.
This is ISIS. Definitely.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Bearded

This is ISIS. Definitely.

Crap! I forgot about ISIS...
Well, yes, and he is to blame too...
And also Martians and solar flares.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

And also Martians and solar flares.

....and also tall grass and bushes.... everything is overgrown there... and even voles with their holes... in short, there is a lot to do... and they are still sawing off the budget money

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Crimean partisan 1974

and even voles with their holes...

Wooden sleepers were chewed, creosote was used as a seasoning, like soy sauce. Concrete sleepers crap...
Yes, they also described the rails, which made them too slippery...

[Crimean partisan 1974]

The wooden sleepers were chewed,

...yes, even woodpeckers can handle this...and voles dig such underground communications that sometimes even tractors sag along their axles

[guest]

Quote: Zoldat_A

The carriages were still flying downhill, but “the whole world” already knew who was to blame in principle and who personally.

And who is to blame? The USA has many "friends".

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: guest

Quote: Zoldat_A

The carriages were still flying downhill, but “the whole world” already knew who was to blame in principle and who personally.

And who is to blame? The USA has many "friends".

Like who? It is clear to the “whole world” that Russia and Putin personally have no one else.
Right here above Machito suggested that ISIS is also getting close...

[Cat Alexandrovich]

“It is also unclear why the accident occurred.”
Who cares?

[ved_med12]

“Plus” to you for knowing the “Great, Mighty...”

[Olesya Lesya]

Railway accidents occur almost every day in the USA. They have constant videos of train derailments online. The railway infrastructure is very worn out, they themselves are already shouting about it, but there is no money!

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

“It is also unclear for what reasons the accident occurred.”

— Switchman Latino-Houthi...

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov

Latino-Houthi switchman...

"Houthi-American"?
By analogy with “African Americans”, in my opinion, would this be politically correct?

[Porfiry Sidorov]

It couldn’t have happened without Petrov, Vasechkin and Bashirov!!

[Or me]

Yesterday in the United States, on the border of two states - Arizona and New Mexico - there was an accident of a freight train that was transporting flammable materials.

So if they don’t have a train once or twice a week, consider the Americans to have lived in vain!

[rotmistr60]

in the United States, on the border of two states - Arizona and New Mexico - an accident occurred on a freight train transporting flammable materials

Accidents on American railroads have become commonplace. This causes bewilderment and indignation of Americans in the media - despite the fact that the railway is in a deplorable state, the government does not pay attention to this, allocating tens to hundreds of billions for the war (supporting the allies) in various parts of the planet. Let them figure it out themselves if they deem it necessary.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

despite the fact that the railway is in a deplorable state, the government does not pay attention to this, allocating tens to hundreds of billions

...so it’s not the government that rules there, but corporations that believe that there is enough motor transport, and the railway is an ancient cheap relic that competes with more expensive motor transport....that’s all

[alystan]

I was transporting gasoline and disappeared...)))

[Victor19]

There is such a term as the “great American rail pogrom” of 1955-1971.