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  • major oil train fire in West Virginia.

    From Stephen Furley@1:2320/100 to All on Tue Feb 17 04:45:36 2015

    From: srfurley@googlemail.com

    On BBC News. Surprised this hasn't been mentioned by anybody else.

    Two West Virginia towns have been evacuated after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and burst into flames.

    Local websites published images of large flames and a thick plume of black smoke near a partly frozen river.

    At least 14 cars were affected and one plunged into the Kanawha River, state officials said.

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  • From Conklin@1:2320/100 to All on Tue Feb 17 08:41:10 2015

    From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net

    "Stephen Furley" <srfurley@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:2f85a876-a9ea-46a0-96f7-16749de53139@googlegroups.com...
    On BBC News. Surprised this hasn't been mentioned by anybody else.

    Two West Virginia towns have been evacuated after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and burst into flames.

    Local websites published images of large flames and a thick plume of black smoke near a partly frozen river.

    At least 14 cars were affected and one plunged into the Kanawha River,
    state officials said.

    The live videos of the scene on network TV news showed flames which looked
    like they were 500 feet high and a cloud which roared. Quite a show. Now I wonder who pays for this.... I would imagine trying to collect from the railroad will take 10 years.

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  • From Hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com@1:2320/100 to Stephen Furley on Tue Feb 17 14:42:34 2015

    On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7:45:36 AM UTC-5, Stephen Furley wrote:
    Surprised this hasn't been mentioned by anybody else.

    This newsgroup is nearly dead. Most of the regulars are gone.

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  • From Jg@1:2320/100 to Conklin on Tue Feb 17 17:23:40 2015

    From: jgrove24@hotmail.com

    On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7:41:09 AM UTC-6, conklin wrote:
    "Stephen Furley" <srfurley@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:2f85a876-a9ea-46a0-96f7-16749de53139@googlegroups.com...
    On BBC News. Surprised this hasn't been mentioned by anybody else.

    Two West Virginia towns have been evacuated after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and burst into flames.

    Local websites published images of large flames and a thick plume of black smoke near a partly frozen river.

    At least 14 cars were affected and one plunged into the Kanawha River, state officials said.

    The live videos of the scene on network TV news showed flames which looked like they were 500 feet high and a cloud which roared. Quite a show. Now I wonder who pays for this.... I would imagine trying to collect from the railroad will take 10 years.

    To quote SCTV, "That Blew Up Real Good!"

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  • From Kurt Hackenberg@1:2320/100 to Hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com on Sun Feb 22 01:38:54 2015

    From: kh@pnnnnx.kom

    <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:

    This newsgroup is nearly dead. Most of the regulars are gone.

    Where did they go? That is, what's the replacement for this group?

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  • From Jimmygeldburg@gmail.com@1:2320/100 to Kurt Hackenberg on Mon Feb 23 13:06:08 2015

    Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
    <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
    This newsgroup is nearly dead. Most of the regulars are gone.

    Where did they go? That is, what's the replacement for this group?

    railroad.net is pretty active. But it's subdivided by railroad or region.

    Jimmy

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  • From Hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com@1:2320/100 to Jimmyg...@gmail.com on Mon Feb 23 18:24:26 2015

    On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 4:06:07 PM UTC-5, jimmyg...@gmail.com wrote:
    Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
    This newsgroup is nearly dead. Most of the regulars are gone.

    Where did they go? That is, what's the replacement for this group?

    railroad.net is pretty active. But it's subdivided by railroad or region.

    People on the tv newsgroup were wondering about a replacement. (That group is flooded with trolls and political posts). That Usenet group discusses TV in general. However, the new forums are specialized by TV show or other category.

    Some users like
    having general discussion forum and not be tied to a specific show.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@1:2320/100 to Hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com on Wed Feb 25 19:00:44 2015

    From: ahk@chinet.com

    hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7:45:36 AM UTC-5, Stephen Furley wrote:

    Surprised this hasn't been mentioned by anybody else.

    This newsgroup is nearly dead. Most of the regulars are gone.

    When a newsgroup's regular chooses to post a followup bitching about
    everyone else not entertaining him instead of commenting on the topic
    of the root articie, that is active sabotage of the newsgroup.

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  • From 866013149e@1:2320/100 to Stephen Furley on Sun Mar 1 00:05:18 2015

    From: 866013149e@interpring.com

    Stephen Furley <srfurley@googlemail.com> writes:

    On BBC News. Surprised this hasn't been mentioned by anybody else.

    Two West Virginia towns have been evacuated after a freight train
    carrying crude oil derailed and burst into flames.

    That must be why Amtrak's Cardinal hasn't been running for the past few days.


    umar

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