Find a copy of USPS Zip codes printed before April, 1973.
You’ll see a listing for Antelope, Ca.
Not after April 28, 1973. Antelope ceased to exist that morning, due to exploding freight cars. It didn’t damage the town, it literally disappeared.
14 Box cars loaded with 750 lbs. bombs exploded. But that’s not what erased Antelope. 3, and only 3, tanks of LPG exploded, each carrying 38,000 gal. They also shattered windows six miles away. One of them rocketed.
Antelope wasn’t a big town, which explains why miraculously, no one, not even a single railworker, lost their lives.
No details. A small group of people, equipped with nothing more than a truck and what you can buy at a hardware store tomorrow can do the same thing, downtown anywhere USA, tonight.
Railworkers and Unions have been screaming about this for years and not one word printed. The general population has been kept dumb.
This IS your wake up call. Better start screaming too.
Your thoughts?
The original town of Antelope, Ca., cinsisted of a gas station, market, hotel, post office and several houses within the city limits.
At 7:53 AM, April 28, 1973, it was levelled, and the nearby railroad yard that was at the south end of Roseville Yard went with it.
It was my 20th birthday, I lived 8 miles away, and, being a railroad employee, the next morning I was on the first train to depart Roseville headed for Fresno on the only track that was left open and intact.
I didn’t say the town wasn’t rebuilt, and I don’t deal in hyperbole.
Great. Keep answers coming, please.
puzzledinphx’s answer raises an important point. But, trains transporting radio-active material are not part of an every day train consist. They are short, special trains, with armed military guards in cars on the front and rear, with men and vehicles checking track, tunnels and bridges immediately before the train’s crossing.
It is the unescorted, plain ol’ freight train that will come through many “downtown” areas of MAJOR US cities.
There are solutions, but few voices.
Some more thoughts, please?