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Reply to "Fairmont MN Derailment"

Of course, we don't know "the rest of the story", yet.  And the train was traveling rather slow.  And the adjacent field looks like a nice soft landing area.  And it's adjacent to a road for relatively fast/easy response and recovery.

But, if those roly-poly tank cars maintained their tank-integrity and held their contents safely through it all, then kudos to their design/manufacturing. 

Just looking for the positives.

OTOH, they might want to heed that flippin' tie at the crossing!  It could've punched a hole in the passing car and created a much, much worse ending.   

Kudos, also, to the vehicle driver/passenger/railfan? who happened to be recording the event.  I hope he/she is rewarded handsomely for providing great documentation!

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