Authorities say a train hauling ethanol and corn syrup derailed around 1 a.m. Thursday and caught fire in Minnesota
they want the railroads to make. A group of Ohio Representatives said at a news conference Thursday about their rail safety legislation that the Minnesota derailment reinforces the need for reform.
BNSF officials said 22 cars derailed, including about 10 carrying ethanol, and the track remained blocked, but no injuries were reported. The cause hasn't been determined, but EPA officialsADM confirmed that the ethanol came from its corn processing facility in Marshall, Minnesota. “Three derailments per day on average. That’s way too many," Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio said."When is the next one going to occur, and what is the next village or township or community in American that is going to have to be evacuated?”
It doesn't appear likely that this BNSF train would have been covered by the additional safety regulations for high-hazardous flammable trains, because those rules only apply when a train has either a block of 20 flammable liquid cars or more than 35 total. Those rules, which also require notice to states, were developed after a string of fiery oil and ethanol derailments a decade ago.
Earlier this month another BNSF train derailed in Washington and spilled 3,100 gallons of diesel near the Swinomish Channel on that tribe’s reservation after a safety device meant to keep a train from crossing onto an open swinging bridge malfunctioned.
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