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Article Excerpt
At about 1:45 a.m. on a bitterly cold and snowy morning in January 2002, a 112-car Canadian Pacific Railway train headed to St. Paul, Minnesota, encountered a devastating problem just outside the prairie town of Minot, North Dakota, population 37,000.
A crack in a joint between sections of track rail--a defect that somehow had gone unnoticed by the railroad's inspectors--sent a portion of the train careening off the track. About 30 of the train's cars collided violently, creating what would soon become a disaster of epic proportions.
Fifteen of the derailed cars were tankers, each carrying about 30,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia, a hazardous chemical...
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