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2023-05-18 -Land of the Free

60,000 Lbs. Explosive Ammonium Nitrate Missing from Train in California

[BREITBART] Sixty thousand pounds of ammonium nitrate, used as a fertilizer but also in explosives, are missing from a rail shipment that was due to arrive in California from Wyoming.

Bay Area public radio station KQED reported Tuesday:

A railcar loaded with 30 tons of the chemical left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12. The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, according to a short incident report from the explosives firm that made the shipment.

The company, Dyno Nobel, made the report May 10 to the federal National Response Center, or NRC. The report also appeared last week in an NRC database of California incidents managed by the state office of Emergency Services last Wednesday.

Dyno Nobel says it believes the material — transported in pellet form in a covered hopper car similar to those used to ship coal — fell from the car on the way to a rail siding called Saltdale, about 30 miles from the town of Mojave in eastern Kern County.Ammonium nitrate was the explosive in the massive bomb used in the Oklahoma City terror attack of 1995. It was also the substance that caused a deadly explosion in a warehouse in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2020.

Foul play is not suspected yet, but the loss of a hazardous chemical is just the latest rail problem in the past several months. In February, a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, eventually leading to a massive explosion that spread potentially hazardous substances to the surrounding community.

Posted by 746 2023-05-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top

#1 fell from the car on the way to a rail siding

Somebody opened the hopper in transit?
Sure.
Anybody with a shop-vac walking the tracks?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-18 00:06|| 2023-05-18 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Check recent FBI truck rentals

Posted by Airandee 2023-05-18 06:43|| 2023-05-18 06:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Check Chinese police station garages.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-18 06:44|| 2023-05-18 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Covered hoppers generally have a capacity of 100 tons, and it's not economical to ship rail cars at 30% of capacity..

Where did the other 70 tons go?

Posted by Bobby 2023-05-18 06:56|| 2023-05-18 06:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Mr White branching out?

Posted by Cesare 2023-05-18 07:28|| 2023-05-18 07:28|| Front Page Top

#6 I vote for #2.

Posted by Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2023-05-18 10:34|| 2023-05-18 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 *snort*
"Must of fell off the back."

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-18 10:50|| 2023-05-18 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Rail car or turnip truck? (Gaulic shrug) we may never know /sarc

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-05-18 11:35|| 2023-05-18 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Massive BS explanation, and Cal OES is also the State Homeland Security Agency, directly linked into the National Fusion Centers/NCTC/IC and the JTTFs.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-05-18 13:19|| 2023-05-18 13:19|| Front Page Top

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