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Cleanup begins after asphalt binder spill into Montana's Yellowstone River after train derailment (apnews.com)

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Witnesses report seeing globs of asphalt binder that spilled into Montana's Yellowstone River during a bridge collapse and train derailment on islands and the riverbanks a week after the spill.

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[–] Rednovs@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This but should trains really be crashing at all? The fact that it's so frequent is a problem in if itself. I mean I get it shit happens but I mean c'mon.

[–] apemint@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No they should absolutely not.
The really disturbing thing is that they're not simply crashing, but because the infrastructure is so dilapidated, they're literally just falling off the tracks.

And that is not something you fix in a week.