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Posted: 1/2/2020 11:46:14 AM EST

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BONNERS FERRY, Idaho (AP) - Crews have started containment measures after a train derailed and its lead engine began leaking diesel fuel into a northern Idaho river.

Crews have placed containment booms in multiple places across the Kootenai River, officials confirmed.

Three locomotives and six rail cars derailed Wednesday in a remote area 10 miles east of Bonners Ferry on the main line, Boundary County sheriff deputies said.

Two workers were rescued from inside the train, authorities said. No one was injured.

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Posted: 1/2/2020 11:51:56 AM EST

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Go home, train. You're drunk.

Posted: 1/2/2020 11:53:01 AM EST

[#2]

I bet the two guys they pulled off there were scared shitless

Posted: 1/2/2020 11:53:06 AM EST

[#3]

Train people are weird.

Posted: 1/2/2020 11:53:26 AM EST

[#4]

Someone should tell that train it only works if it’s name is The Polar Express and the lake/river is frozen.

Oh and what the fuck is a foamer?

Posted: 1/2/2020 11:55:59 AM EST

[#5]

A foamer is a train nerd.

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Posted: 1/2/2020 11:58:07 AM EST

[#6]

I'll call it a good day that it's not upside down.

Hell the guys in the cab could relax and finish their cigarette.

Posted: 1/2/2020 11:59:32 AM EST

[#7]

Fucking kids putting pennies on the track again.

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:00:16 PM EST

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Still doesn’t explain why the name foamer. Is it because they jizz their pants every time they see a train? It’s a dumb and weird name.

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:00:43 PM EST

[#9]

steering sucks in those things

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:02:45 PM EST

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Someone should tell that train it only works if it’s name is The Polar Express and the lake/river is frozen.

Oh and what the fuck is a foamer?

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Someone who foams at the mouth around trains, a well known expression (generally).

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:03:38 PM EST

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Train people are weird.

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(I'm not either... I just love that meme.

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Posted: 1/2/2020 12:07:42 PM EST

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Still doesn’t explain why the name foamer. Is it because they jizz their pants every time they see a train? It’s a dumb and weird name.

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Foaming at the muzzle like a rabid dog. "Foamer"

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:08:03 PM EST

[#13]

I don't see a problem, throw a chain on the back of bubbas 3/4 cummmins and drag it on out.

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:10:02 PM EST

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Someone who foams at the mouth around trains, a well known expression (generally).

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Someone should tell that train it only works if it’s name is The Polar Express and the lake/river is frozen.

Oh and what the fuck is a foamer?

Someone who foams at the mouth around trains, a well known expression (generally).

First I've ever heard of it.

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:10:30 PM EST

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First I've ever heard of it.

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Someone should tell that train it only works if it’s name is The Polar Express and the lake/river is frozen.

Oh and what the fuck is a foamer?

Someone who foams at the mouth around trains, a well known expression (generally).

First I've ever heard of it.

*TRAINPORTED

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:16:38 PM EST

[#16]

Fuckin Capitan had to show off and popped the clutch.

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:16:50 PM EST

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Still doesn’t explain why the name foamer. Is it because they jizz their pants every time they see a train? It’s a dumb and weird name.

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You asked, I answered. You HAVE heard the expression "foaming at the mouth", right?

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:21:02 PM EST

[#18]

Silly train, you are not a boat.

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:25:24 PM EST

[#19]

I bet that was a helluva ride.

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:27:12 PM EST

[#20]

That’s supposed to be a big time salmon trout fishery. Even sturgeon in though from what I see

Fish are probably having a worse day but then the flows look pretty high and should dilute the diesel.

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:29:45 PM EST

[#21]

Containment on a river? ummhmmm

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:29:50 PM EST

[#22]

I follow one of the local news stations up there on Facebook, and I was like "that's a pretty bad day for those guys."

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:31:41 PM EST

[#23]

Diesel Dan/disaster strikes

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:31:49 PM EST

[#24]

I guess they stopped in for the crab meat

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:34:13 PM EST

[#25]

J,Wesley,Rawles is testing the tracks to see if he can derail the invasion.

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:35:03 PM EST

[#26]

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:49:07 PM EST

[#27]

Who was at the wheel.

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:51:56 PM EST

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A rock slide...

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:55:34 PM EST

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You asked, I answered. You HAVE heard the expression "foaming at the mouth", right?

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But he identifies as a boat and that's all that matters

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:56:50 PM EST

[#30]

GPS said turn left....

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:57:37 PM EST

[#31]

I used to work on that river

They are lucky that they got out of there, especially in some of the places where the tracks are

There are Endangered Kootenai River White Sturgeon in that river that live near the town of Bonners Ferry, ID.....someone is gonna have a hefty clean-up bill

Posted: 1/2/2020 12:58:32 PM EST

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I laugh EVERY DAMN TIME I see that!!!

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:01:18 PM EST

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http://www.mellowmike.com/Other/Artists%20Foamers.jpg

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And yeah, that’s a bad day for quite a few people.

On the flip side at least, diesel is pretty pedestrian as far as what is carried via rail to end up in a stream/river.

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:13:18 PM EST

[#34]

Well, there's yer problem right there...

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:14:40 PM EST

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This caught my attention as well. Containment boom has a max working load of 3 knots. How fast is that river moving? They aren't containing anything but a lot of times we put boom out just to make people feel better.

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:15:18 PM EST

[#36]

Put it in 4-low and back it out.....

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:17:43 PM EST

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The cause of the derailment is under investigation but it appears there was a rockslide in the area, BNSF Railway Company spokesman Gus Melonas said. The only access to the area is by train or boat, he said.

Forty trains use the track daily including company freights and Amtrak passenger trains traveling between Seattle and Chicago, Melonas said.

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That unit in the river is going to soak for a while.

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:22:54 PM EST

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A foamer is a train nerd.

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Posted: 1/2/2020 1:27:28 PM EST

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Still doesn't explain why the name foamer. Is it because they jizz their pants every time they see a train? It's a dumb and weird name.

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Everyone's got their thing

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Posted: 1/2/2020 1:27:59 PM EST

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I bet he went through a jug of Jergens and a whole roll of paper towels...

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:32:52 PM EST

[#41]

Didn't this happen a few years ago in the same river and the wound up just leaving the train there?

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:36:02 PM EST

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That unit in the river is going to soak for a while.

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The cause of the derailment is under investigation but it appears there was a rockslide in the area, BNSF Railway Company spokesman Gus Melonas said. The only access to the area is by train or boat, he said.

Forty trains use the track daily including company freights and Amtrak passenger trains traveling between Seattle and Chicago, Melonas said.

That unit in the river is going to soak for a while.

Doubt it. At the very least, no way they are going let it sit there and continue to leak fuel and oil into the river. Recovery equipment is undoubtedly already on site and work has begun to clean up the mess and restore service.

That isn’t even as bad as it looks.

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A couple of sidewinders or a big crane and they will have that thing out of the river in a few hours.

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:37:36 PM EST

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Didn't this happen a few years ago in the same river and the wound up just leaving the train there?

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You think that federal and state environmental regulatory agencies would allow that to happen?

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:38:59 PM EST

[#44]

Well it could have been some 737's that jumped the track

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:44:41 PM EST

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Oil Absorbing Hydrophobic floating socks that will catch the diesel before it continues downstream.

Seen them used successfully a few years ago when a local tugboat sunk.

Posted: 1/2/2020 1:50:24 PM EST

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That's supposed to be a big time salmon trout fishery. Even sturgeon in though from what I see

Fish are probably having a worse day but then the flows look pretty high and should dilute the diesel.

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No salmon, as its a tributary to the Columbia and up river of Chief George. Big sturgeon hatchery in Bonners though. The tribe will not be happy.