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Posted: 5/17/2023 9:06:59 PM EDT
Some 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as both fertilizer and a component in explosives, went missing as it was shipped by rail from Wyoming to California last month, prompting four separate investigations.
Ammonium nitrate is commonly used as fertilizer. It's also an ingredient in high explosives and was used in the homemade bomb detonated in the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.  
https://www.kqed.org/news/11949697/california-officials-trying-to-track-down-missing-30-ton-shipment-of-explosive-chemicals
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:07:55 PM EDT
[#1]
Whelp.  Guess we know what the next big zomgwtfbbq event will be.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:08:59 PM EDT
[#2]
Man, 2023 is not a good year for America's railroad industry.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:09:34 PM EDT
[#3]
lol...
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:09:38 PM EDT
[#4]
Inside job.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:10:04 PM EDT
[#5]
Lol, if it's like my RR, it's probably a trail of granules stretched out over a hundred miles from a leaky hopper
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:10:26 PM EDT
[#6]
How can you steal 30 tons of something and it go unnoticed?
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:10:54 PM EDT
[#7]
Bet it was those Patriot Front Nazis that pop up in the media from time to time.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:11:04 PM EDT
[#8]
Now, sit down and consider how much meth and opiates we move every year.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:11:28 PM EDT
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Lol, if it's like my RR, it's probably a trail of granules stretched out over a hundred miles from a leaky hopper
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Plausible.   I saw this one time, except it was plastic pellets.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:11:38 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:12:04 PM EDT
[#11]
Reading is not fundamental, at least in GD.

It was a hopper car and one of the gates was not closed properly, or secured closed ( or maybe broken ) They said several things.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:12:23 PM EDT
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My heaviest train was 17,000 tons. 30 tons is a rounding error. A fully loaded grain car weighs 143 tons, or more.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:12:41 PM EDT
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Whelp.  Guess we know what the next big zomgwtfbbq event will be.
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Not if it’s been leaked to the news already. It’ll be found with some moron militia that’s got 1 member and 9 handlers from 4 different alphabet agencies.

We’ll also get the nutcases manifesto inside of 2 hours professing his hate fetish for some random group.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:12:41 PM EDT
[#14]
I clicked to get another star on my list.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:14:38 PM EDT
[#15]
Odds that the marxists have already given it to their next Timothy McVeigh’s so they can use the deaths of innocents to go after their political opponents?
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:14:49 PM EDT
[#16]
Somebody has a very green yard this year!
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:14:57 PM EDT
[#17]
Well on the bright side our border is secure so we don't have to worry about foreign agents getting a hold of it to do harm to America and her people.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:16:07 PM EDT
[#18]
I would imagine it has more to do with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ than terror.

That's a fuck ton of money.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:19:35 PM EDT
[#19]
They can't take it to San Franciscograd to clean up that sh*thole.  No freight trains run up there and it's only a commuter train, CalTrains.

Bet it's run down to LA where it can't possibly do any harm.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:20:41 PM EDT
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Ask Heizenberg. Isn’t there a dead spot from their tracking somewhere out there?
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:21:01 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:26:04 PM EDT
[#22]
The actual story here is that you can take a big assed vacuum cleaner between Saltdale and Cheyenne  and become an ammonia baron.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:27:22 PM EDT
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Aside from uncoupling an entire train car? It probably got unloaded in to trucks and never marked off that it did
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:28:28 PM EDT
[#24]
That could make a huge boom.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:30:23 PM EDT
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Or in a line of empty cars on a side track in Idaho.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:31:01 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:31:35 PM EDT
[#27]
It's great having the adults in charge am I right?
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:31:41 PM EDT
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Reading is not fundamental, at least in GD.

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FIB sent mixed signals on the cover story.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:32:30 PM EDT
[#29]
You mean covertly misappropriated by the man, to fulfill their agenda, domestic or otherwise.

Anyone taking bets on which it'll be?
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:36:57 PM EDT
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You mean covertly misappropriated by the man, to fulfill their agenda, domestic or otherwise.

Anyone taking bets on which it'll be?
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Depending on the odds I’ll put $10 each on illegally border-crossing operatives from these countries: China, Russia, Iran and Venezuela
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:39:40 PM EDT
[#31]
Look for the long stretch of really nice grass.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:42:33 PM EDT
[#32]
glowing false flag coming up
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:44:08 PM EDT
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Nah.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:45:09 PM EDT
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I don't even think Oklahoma was 60,000 pounds.
I'd find that shit fast.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:45:40 PM EDT
[#35]
That could be a problem.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:45:46 PM EDT
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That’s probably exactly what happened. Most likely, someone at the production/load facility didn’t latch a dump hose cap properly.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:45:46 PM EDT
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In before the false flag?
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:46:48 PM EDT
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I don't even think Oklahoma was 60,000 pounds.
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There were other bombs in the building there. Lot's of shit hushed up on that. The truck bomb didn't do all of that damage......
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:47:01 PM EDT
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Reading is not fundamental, at least in GD.

It was a hopper car and one of the gates was not closed properly, or secured closed ( or maybe broken ) They said several things.
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Yes, and it seems to be getting worse these days.

Is it ADHD kids learning to use the internet? Did COVID turn 2/3 of the population retarded?
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:47:56 PM EDT
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This…. It sounds like a lot at face value but weight limit on each car in my AO is 286,000 lbs which 220,000 of that is product. 60,000 is a rounding error or a shitty hopper slide
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:52:01 PM EDT
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I guess they better hire some extra mowing and trimming crews for that section of track.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:54:37 PM EDT
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A single trailer loads worth unaccounted for could just be a computer glitch. 30 ton really isnt much material. If it wasn't ammonium nitrate it wouldn't even be news worthy.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:56:07 PM EDT
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I guess they better hire some extra mowing and trimming crews for that section of track.
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Nah, they will just add a tank car from East Palestine that hasn't yet leaked. Unwanted vegetation issue solved.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:57:27 PM EDT
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You've obviously never watched Breaking Bad.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:57:36 PM EDT
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A single trailer loads worth unaccounted for could just be a computer glitch. 30 ton really isnt much material. If it wasn't ammonium nitrate it wouldn't even be news worthy.
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Or never loaded up in the first place
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:59:08 PM EDT
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This guy is going to be busy:
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:59:20 PM EDT
[#47]
I’m sure the FBI will get right on it.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:59:40 PM EDT
[#48]
Interesting tale
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 9:59:50 PM EDT
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I want a flamethrower train.
Link Posted: 5/17/2023 10:01:37 PM EDT
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So the hopper was left open and the pellets leaked out the bottom?  So it’s not missing, just spread out over hundreds of miles of rail-line.
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