Externet Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Could be much worse next time... 🙄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapatos Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Seems like this one should have gone in the "Jokes" section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MigL Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 No Joke. Did you read about the derailment in New Palestine, Ohio ? I work in the chemical industry, with Phosphorus and Phosphine, on a daily basis, but that one rattled wven my nerves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVat Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Kind of scary that vinyl chloride, when it combusts, releases phosgene as one breakdown product. A gas that was used in trench warfare.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 To the OP, missiles wouldn’t ship with warheads already installed, especially not without better bracing than that shown here. Those are metal tubes with fins welded in that look neat. No rocketry or armaments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endy0816 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Propane! ...not a joke 🤣 https://www.wfla.com/news/sarasota-county/cargo-train-partially-derails-near-manatee-county-border/amp/  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Externet Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 Missiles or rockets or whatever they are, hope are not armed. Scary stuff. Phiu ! Well, hope the warheads are not in another wagon... or in another train ! 😲 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapatos Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 23 minutes ago, Externet said: Missiles or rockets or whatever they are, hope are not armed. Scary stuff. Phiu ! Well, hope the warheads are not in another wagon... or in another train ! 😲 My understanding is that missile aboard aircraft carriers aren't armed until a mission is assigned and the missiles are about to be attached to the jets. I cannot imagine armed, fueled rockets being transported by train in open cars. That picture seems like some kind of joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genady Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Here is something I've found about this photo (Train full of missiles photographed in Ostrava a hoax - spectator.sme.sk😞 Quote The missiles in the carriages have dismounted wings, so they were probably meant for decommissioning and eliminating. ÄŒÃtajte viac: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20808773/train-full-of-missiles-photographed-in-ostrava-a-hoax.html  1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sethoflagos Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) 1 hour ago, Endy0816 said: Propane! ...not a joke 🤣 https://www.wfla.com/news/sarasota-county/cargo-train-partially-derails-near-manatee-county-border/amp/  If there's one word that sends chills down a chemical engineer's spine it is BLEVE (and it needs to!).  Post script: LPG is often stored in elongated cylinders informally referred to as 'bullets'. A common 'good design practice' is to avoid aligning them with the long axis pointing towards any habitation within 3 kms. Edited March 1 by sethoflagos chilling detail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MigL Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Turns out the problem that led to the New Palestine derailment, and subsequent burning of Vinyl Chloride, Di-isobutylene, etc., coould have been avoided had reccomendations from previous derailments been implemented; brakes on every axle of the cars. But the rail industry lobbied heavily the previous orange haired President, who waived the reccomendations. Just another of D Trump's wonderful legacies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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