Why? Because it is winter in North Dakota and Canada and in order to have the consistency of the tar correct to flow into oil cars the producer had to add more and more and more naptha until it ran like water to be sure it would load for transportation.
New oil cars regardless of their valued purpose it's going to hold up to that degree of heat and/or force of explosion. There is no vehicle that is impervious to explosion with such chemicals. The problem is not the railroad, it is the manufacturer that loads a substance that is for the most part is naphtha and highly explosive. What I am wonder is, what did the temperature change between North Dakota and West Virginia do to the mixture as well as the oil cars. Expansion and contraction or vice versa. There was a leak somewhere.
New oil cars regardless of their valued purpose it's going to hold up to that degree of heat and/or force of explosion. There is no vehicle that is impervious to explosion with such chemicals. The problem is not the railroad, it is the manufacturer that loads a substance that is for the most part is naphtha and highly explosive. What I am wonder is, what did the temperature change between North Dakota and West Virginia do to the mixture as well as the oil cars. Expansion and contraction or vice versa. There was a leak somewhere.
