Yep, either US or Canada, with the gross wt listed in lbs first. The big letters tell who owns it as well. That particular tank car belongs to Archer Daniels Midland. Probably carrying soybean or corn oil...better than MEK or some other organic solvent I suppose if it goes into the river...
Actually not as bad as it looks. It's an expansion joint. Built up girders like those probably move about 4 to 6 inches on each side of the joint. Something was'nt moving lie it should and the force pushed the 'shoe' out from under the girder. Shoes are pinned to the concrete pier with 1 inch or so steel pins. It obviously did not shear off, but rather busted the concrete off on one side. You can see the shoe is cockeyed a bit.
Now, unless they put those chains at full expansion, they will snap like a twig. I have seen plenty of loose shoes, loose enough to be removed kinda thing.
Railroads have always been notorious for 1. Overbuilding bridges 2. not maintaining bridges
The hazmat placard on the tank car shows it contains ethanol. Each car contains about 34,000 gallons. Quite a mess when that bridge fails and you dump a couple dozen of those railcars right into the water, especially if it catches fire. US infrastructure is literally crumbling while we piss away billions overseas.
Whoops. They ARE likely carrying an oddball solvent...the HazMat placard on the next one is for flammable liquids, and code means Alcohol, N.O.S. (not otherwise specified), and Ethanol is definitely listed, so it looks like this is an incipient three-fer...transportation, environmental, and fire emergency all riding one one short length of hardware store galvanized chain...
I question the steel, too. This is typical American infrastructure nowadays. The economy doesn't generate enough taxes and profits to maintain the existing infrastructure.
Obviously not Mother Russia. Russia has mostly recovered from the old Soviet economy, and is in much better shape than we are, especially in the military sphere.
The economy generates more than enough profit and taxes to deal with infrastructure and maintenance. The problem is politicians.... specifically the demonrats, who steal the taxes to spend on welfare and other garbage buying votes and laundering our taxes through other countries and back into their own pockets.
Parkersburg has a civil war era railroad bridge across the Ohio River, piers laid up with stone. Still solid as ever. Barge will sometimes hit it, bridge don't give a fuck.
The thing is, the government knows pretty much how many of those kinds of problems with bridge support and bridges exist, in the entire country. They have done studies in every state. They just appropriate the money for the fixes, and then the politicians pork barrel it to pet projects that look good for them to the people in their district, to get them votes, and hopefully the bridge problem will not happen until they have left office. But when a bridge support does fail, it is often a major catastrophe, with the loss of many lives and much environmental devastation. And that costs many times more than just fixing the problem in the first place. Why are we not surprised about this, when it eventually does happen? I have to say because we have gotten used to our elected leaders incompetence in favor of their own self interests.
They should wrap that concrete support with carbon fiber plating to better avoid a catastrophic failure.
ReplyDeleteNot to worry. Pete Buttplug is going to fix it as soon as he’s done sucking lunch.
DeleteI was going to say Mother Russia. Then sadly I thought or possibly the US of A.
ReplyDeleteWell, seeing as the writing on the tank is in English.....
DeleteThat observation, which I missed, does shed a bit of light doesn't it.
DeleteOne river, soon to be a EPA supersite.
ReplyDeleteSome railways aren't putting what they should into maintenance. That is a severe maintenance failure.
ReplyDeleteTHIS RIGHT HERE
DeleteThose chains will really keep everything together when the rest of the concrete crumbles on that corner.
ReplyDelete1987 placard means ethanol. Highly flammable. Glad we don't have pipelines to wreck the environment.
ReplyDeleteAnd that’s a n Archer Daniel Midland tank I believe. How can these pass any type of inspection?
ReplyDeleteBuddha
The acronym "ADM" in reality stands for "Another Damn Mess" according to several ADM employees I know.
DeleteNote that the pic is taken from downstream......
I believe I'd prefer to remain upstream of that.
Delete--Tennessee Budd
All that tax money meant for infrastructure? Nah. The crooks in DC spent it on Ukraine, illegal immigration, and crack for The Big Guy's little boy.
ReplyDeletebuild back better.
Deletewhat a joke. they have looted the treasury.
Yep, either US or Canada, with the gross wt listed in lbs first. The big letters tell who owns it as well. That particular tank car belongs to Archer Daniels Midland. Probably carrying soybean or corn oil...better than MEK or some other organic solvent I suppose if it goes into the river...
ReplyDeleteI see the word "unexpectedly" in my future.
ReplyDeleteActually not as bad as it looks. It's an expansion joint. Built up girders like those probably move about 4 to 6 inches on each side of the joint.
ReplyDeleteSomething was'nt moving lie it should and the force pushed the 'shoe' out from under the girder. Shoes are pinned to the concrete pier with 1 inch or so steel pins. It obviously did not shear off, but rather busted the concrete off on one side. You can see the shoe is cockeyed a bit.
Now, unless they put those chains at full expansion, they will snap like a twig. I have seen plenty of loose shoes, loose enough to be removed kinda thing.
Railroads have always been notorious for 1. Overbuilding bridges 2. not maintaining bridges
The hazmat placard on the tank car shows it contains ethanol. Each car contains about 34,000 gallons. Quite a mess when that bridge fails and you dump a couple dozen of those railcars right into the water, especially if it catches fire. US infrastructure is literally crumbling while we piss away billions overseas.
ReplyDeleteRidin’ with Biden, in one simple photo
ReplyDeleteWhoops. They ARE likely carrying an oddball solvent...the HazMat placard on the next one is for flammable liquids, and code means Alcohol, N.O.S. (not otherwise specified), and Ethanol is definitely listed, so it looks like this is an incipient three-fer...transportation, environmental, and fire emergency all riding one one short length of hardware store galvanized chain...
ReplyDeleteThe weights are in pounds first and kilograms second, I don't know if that's a clue?
ReplyDeleteI question the steel, too. This is typical American infrastructure nowadays. The economy doesn't generate enough taxes and profits to maintain the existing infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteObviously not Mother Russia. Russia has mostly recovered from the old Soviet economy, and is in much better shape than we are, especially in the military sphere.
The economy generates more than enough profit and taxes to deal with infrastructure and maintenance. The problem is politicians.... specifically the demonrats, who steal the taxes to spend on welfare and other garbage buying votes and laundering our taxes through other countries and back into their own pockets.
DeleteHow many state and/or federal inspectors got bribed for how many years for that pylon to become that deteriorated and damaged?
ReplyDeleteAren't the railways wholly responsible for their own maintenance and inspection on the majority of the runs?
DeletePutin did it.
ReplyDeleteVermillion
Parkersburg has a civil war era railroad bridge across the Ohio River, piers laid up with stone. Still solid as ever. Barge will sometimes hit it, bridge don't give a fuck.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like too much water for the Tuolumne.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't they use Duct Tape?
Reminds me of the way they spray concrete on unstable cliffs on I-25 through Raton Pass, & other places.
ReplyDeleteLike a band-aid, it works-for a while.
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PR: We are aware of the situation and have taken steps to alleviate the problem.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, the government knows pretty much how many of those kinds of problems with bridge support and bridges exist, in the entire country. They have done studies in every state. They just appropriate the money for the fixes, and then the politicians pork barrel it to pet projects that look good for them to the people in their district, to get them votes, and hopefully the bridge problem will not happen until they have left office.
ReplyDeleteBut when a bridge support does fail, it is often a major catastrophe, with the loss of many lives and much environmental devastation. And that costs many times more than just fixing the problem in the first place.
Why are we not surprised about this, when it eventually does happen? I have to say because we have gotten used to our elected leaders incompetence in favor of their own self interests.
It's perfectly fine as it is.
ReplyDeleteUntil it's not.
I'm just as worried about the steel than the concrete. GUNNY 0369.
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