A Union Pacific train with approximately 35 cars derailed close to Gordon, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon.
Video shows mangled train cars piled on top of each other on the tracks, as emergency crews attend the scene.
Palo Pinto County officials confirmed the derailment happened near the Coalville Road Bridge and that no injuries have been reported.
“Union Pacific Railroad is on scene with equipment and cranes preparing to move rail cars off the track. This will be an active scene for several days”, officials said on a Facebook post.
Hell yea! Who needs railroad maintenance, when you get to just dump your shit all over the place right? Without being held accountable.
Profit is more important than rail maintenance. UP (who just bought Norfolk Southern), BNSF, and CSX have all proven that.
It’s well past time for rail infrastructure to become part of the public ownership again - same as the interstates and airports.
That dude Alan Fischer makes me love trains even more! And also hate all the bureaucratic red tape that states put up to block any hopes of new transit rail systems.
Somehow I knew what this was going to be before I saw it
Yay! Let’s continue to deregulate. Think of all the money incredibly filthy rich bastards are going to make!! Whoo hoo!!!
Why do we need to approximate cars? Isn’t that a discrete number recorded at the Union Pacific dispatch?
Cursed content juxtaposition
That or this conductor said, “Nah.”
It’s Infrastucture Week again?
Oh boy. I wonder what the railroad is gonna pollute and cover up now
I hate these links. I had to click on 3 ads just to watch the video, and had to click 5 Xes and Nos for them to understand that I don’t want to login
ublock origin is great. I don’t see any ads on bbc. I guess I always assume people have it added on.
I feel like another lane of travel on the highway would’ve avoided this
Gordon is west of Fort Worth
West
Whoops donno how i typed the opposite
No worries, I just know because I used to pass it on my way into DFW occasionally. A train derailment east of Fort Worth likely would have made the front page of most news orgs. Gordon is still relatively rural.
Oh damn, the US is already at Atlas Shrugged Part I?
For reference Atlas Shrugged is a book about the impending collapse of capitalism from the perspective of billionaire CEOs of corporations, with some magic involved but we don’t talk about that, and the primary focus is that now the public is made irrelevant by poverty etc. the government start to sanction the corps and effectively destroy them. It was adapted into a movie trilogy, which plays out like an NBC drama.
lmao, nah. Wasn’t she the one that took social services? Libertarians can go kick rocks.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Rand developed and promoted her Objectivist philosophy through nonfiction and speeches,[98][99] including annual lectures at the Ford Hall Forum.[100] In answers to audience questions, she took controversial stances on political and social issues. These included supporting abortion rights,[101] opposing the Vietnam War and the military draft (but condemning many draft dodgers as “bums”),[102][103] supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 against a coalition of Arab nations as “civilized men fighting savages”,[104][105] claiming European colonists had the right to invade and take land inhabited by American Indians,[105][106] and calling homosexuality “immoral” and “disgusting”, despite advocating the repeal of all laws concerning it.[107] She endorsed several Republican candidates for president of the United States, most strongly Barry Goldwater in 1964.[108][109]
Yeah, nah. Fuck off with that shit. Anyone trying to make Ayn Rand, or anything she wrote, seem good or normal should kick rocks.
