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?
2006-10-22 00:53:10 · 6 answers · asked by Samurai Hoghead 7 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Rail
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.
2006-10-22 10:33:26 · update #1
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?
2006-10-22 13:00:08 · update #2
My thoughts are: How come I can find it so easily on Google Maps? And how come it has a population of 36,000, even after being wiped off the face of the earth?
Not that it didn't happen, but the part about the town disappearing is hyperbole. In any rate, it takes politicians, not explosives, to erase administrative boundaries and land use designations.
2006-10-22 01:05:51 · answer #1 · answered by Petard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Hogshead, after following the many, many stories over the years of RR happenings, I to, don't understand the mentality of hauling some loads, whether by rail or highway, that can be so easily gotten to with just a few items of potential harm. How will we explain to the mass about the nuclear explosion will hauling used waste from the nuclear plants to a "safe" site for dumping?
2006-10-22 18:06:38 · answer #2 · answered by puzzledinphx. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone needs to tell the people that live there.
2006-10-22 16:24:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a good story...
2006-10-22 08:01:23 · answer #4 · answered by bezsenný 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mann if its gonna happen it will just enjoy untill.
2006-10-23 13:52:02 · answer #5 · answered by switchplate2003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya, we are pretty much screwed......
2006-10-22 08:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by Me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋