US train explodes after derailment in Illinois

[Turbostar]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15226940

 

[bocaj]

That looks bad. I hope no one has been hurt.

 

[starrymarkb]

No reported injuries

 

[eMeS]

From the BBC's video it looks as though the brakes failed, and wagons simply kept rolling...

 

[GB]

Not sure how you can possibly come to that conclusion based on a 30 second video clip.

 

[Schnellzug]

Who would that be? UP?

 

[Yank 119]

Who would that be? UP?

Tiskilwa is on the Iowa Interstate Railroad, a class II regional railroad.

 

[33056]

Not the first time that* sort of accident has happened in the US

* train carrying dangerous goods becoming derailed and causing evacuation of residents, regardless of initial cause of incident.

 

[WatcherZero]

Two days later they let the 800 townsfolk return with the warning that since the train was still smouldering they may reissue the evacuation order...

 

[stanley T]

Not as spectacular as this a year ago in Poland -explosion caught on camera.

 

[Old Timer]

It was a Rock Island to Chicago train operated by the Iowa Interstate Railroad.