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Eastern Railroad Discussion > Tuscola & Saginaw Bay derailment in Farwell MIDate: 06/20/06 19:14 Tuscola & Saginaw Bay derailment in Farwell MI Author: KINGCOAL505 Anyone have any updated information on this supposed intentional derailment?
Another website reported this train was supposedly carrying nuclear waste. Date: 06/20/06 19:48 Re: Tuscola & Saginaw Bay derailment in Farwell MI Author: toledopatch The train's consist included several cars of "used" cooling water from the decommissioned Big Rock Point nuclear plant. Whether that qualifies as "nuclear waste" I don't know, though I do know the derailment garnered more news attention than it would have without those cars in the train. None of those cars were actually involved in the accident, in which 15 sand cars and two empty coal/coke hoppers derailed. I hadn't heard about a sabotage angle....
Date: 06/20/06 19:57 Re: Tuscola & Saginaw Bay derailment in Farwell MI Author: KINGCOAL505 I got that sabotage information from a newspaper article from searching NEWS FARWELL on google after reading on the same news section of trains.com
Date: 06/20/06 20:23 Re: Tuscola & Saginaw Bay derailment in Farwell MI Author: csxt4617 I saw sabotage mentioned as a possible cause on the michiganrailroads.com messageboards
(probably citing the same newspaper reference mentioned in the previous post) Date: 06/20/06 20:25 Re: Tuscola & Saginaw Bay derailment in Farwell MI Author: toledopatch The Saginaw News item that comes up from a Google search discusses the sabotage angle; also says the nuclear-related cargo was crushed concrete and dirt from the plant, not "hot" cooling water.
Date: 06/20/06 20:32 Re: Tuscola & Saginaw Bay derailment in Farwell MI Author: KINGCOAL505 Apparently some kind of switch problem still not confirmed
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