Interesting take on the Korean train disaster.

[MeekandMild]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=515021

Apparantly there is a rumor going about that the big railway explosion which killed over 2000 people was targeting Kim Jong.

Hard to believe though it may be it is less farfetched than the official explantion. I find it strange that a power pole would just happen to fall onto an oil wagon and two fertilizer wagons.

 

[Parker Dean]

I was wondering just how long it would take before a conspiracy of "American Operatives" was announced as the cause of the explosion. Not quite there yet, give it another week...

 

[LD]

I just have to wonder why in the world anybody would position a tanker of fuel oil anywhere near two boxcars of Ammonium Nitrate let alone between them or whatever the case was in this incident.

However, some things just aren't adding up to convince me that this was in fact an ANFO explosion. Not quite the "push" damage that would be expected. No conspiracy, just not enough details yet.

 

[Apple a Day]

From what I've read so far it sounds more like a case of lousy management and/or a primitive system. You might expect people here for safety reasons to break up the shipment of HAZMAT into smaller chunks and not sit those chunks in different trains next to each other but that kinda assumes that
a) someone has thought of the dangers
b)their government, which owns everything, allows them to cut efficiency for the sake of safety
c) they have the means (computers and software) to keep track of shipments well enough to plan for such things.
d)the government, which owns everything, cares enough about the people who might get killed that they would bother.
Then again, who knows?

 

[Waitone]

When viewing the pictures of the scene, it struck me as if an air-fuel device went off. Something ain't adding up.

 

[LoneStranger]

Fellas, While it has been awhile since I paid any attention to this, I have observed a tankcar full of a base between two tankcars of acid on a train.

While there are specifications for what goes where on a train I don't think they look at some of the things which could cause problems. Usually they are not a problem so the railroads don't get excited.