60,000 pounds of explosive chemical ammonium nitrate lost in shipping: report

My first thought was meth. But yeah, also fireworks and explosives.

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Revisit this after three months.

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That’s the first thing my wife said, probably for meth production

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From an updated article.

Union Pacific also ruled out the possibility of theft, saying ‘we do not believe there is any criminal or malicious activity involved.’

The product is transported in hopper cars, and according to Union Pacific only part of the rail car was carrying the 60,000 pounds (30 tons) of pellets.

Ammonium nitrate fertilizer costs around $600 per ton, according to New Mexico State University, so the missing shipment would have been worth something in the region of $18,000.

Stan Blake, a former Wyoming state lawmaker and retired train conductor, told Cowboy State Daily it wouldn’t be hard to drain one of the hopper cars of its load of the pellets.

The cars have two or three sections, Blake said, and there’s a gate at the bottom of them. ‘You can use up a big bar and open that gate and it’ll pour out,’ he told the outlet.

Union Pacific, which operated the train carrying the explosive chemicals, said if the pellets had leaked from the train it would be harmless. Pictured is a Union Pacific train hauling bulk grain through Kansas

Union Pacific, which operated the train carrying the explosive chemicals, said if the pellets had leaked from the train it would be harmless. Pictured is a Union Pacific train hauling bulk grain through Kansas© Provided by Daily Mail

He also suggested that its possible the pellets never got on the train in the first place, since with a mobile conveyor belt, the chemical can be carried from the open gate into a truck.

He said sometimes cars would be registered as carrying loads, but they’d be empty, and vice versa.

He said sometimes when cars were joined, they could slam together and some would spill out. He told the outlet he’s known people to collect it in plastic bags and put it on their lawn.

‘It’s great fertilizer,’ he said.

Ammonium nitrate is used as both a fertilizer and in explosives. A large amount of the material exploded in the Port of Beirut in August 2020 killing 281 people and injuring around 7,000.

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Not that I dont trust Union Pacific, but I thought there was an agency in this country that usually involves itself with potential theft of crapload of explosives.

Sometimes I feel like a Soviet reading Pravda between the lines.

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Isn’t that the truth. :thinking:

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Remember TASS?

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What da hell!
Pelosi-Schumer-1 (2)

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David, PLEASE! It’s dinner time! sheeeesh!

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Well it has been about 2 weeks since the alleged pellets allegedly leaked out of the alleged train cars.

Is there any allegedly tall grass or other allegedly unusual vegetation growth along the alleged route of the alleged train?

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No… And I have been watching. Just the same rehash and no agency stepping up. :thinking:

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Sorry. :rofl: :joy: :rofl:

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Glenn Two-Four… allegedly tall grass or other allegedly unusual vegetation growth along the alleged route of the alleged train?

Now ^^^^^^^THAT^^^^^^^ was a great quote (allegedly)…

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I knew someone was making meth out of it

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Well the transportation secretary is busy breast feeding.

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Now ^^^^^^THAT^^^^^^^ is a disgusting image seared in my mind for eternity Thank you Sir :weary::weary::weary::weary:

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hmmm… and we got claims of many mostly chinese national males of military age just recently crossin our southern border…

and then there is the islamic extremist that were caught… and of course the cartels…

etc. etc. etc.

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Stuffs gotta be somewhere. It’ll show up.
Growing green plants, breaking something or killing people.
Btw the McVeigh explosion out in the street sent the front axle 5 blocks away with one heck of a bang but it did NOT bring down the facing side of the Murrah bldg. A retired AF explosives specialist shortly after the event states unequivocally that shaped charges staged and spread through out the structure times to coord with Tim’s trigger dropped what you see in the pic. His summary of the explosion disappeared from view almost as soon as it was published. No kiddin’.

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I have talked to engineers that were brought in and did building inspections in the area right after the explosion. Unfortunately most people will never get to hear what the non government experts had to say. It’s an entirely different story than what the media reported.

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:oden: Our vaunted federal investigators are on the job and are probing for clues. :dango:
Other wise the article is just a rehash. :roll_eyes:

Federal investigators probe how 30 TONS of explosive ammonium nitrate vanished

Story by Lewis Pennock For Dailymail.Com • 7h ago

  • Roughly 60,000 pounds of the chemical vanished during a two-week journey from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Saltdale, California
  • Officials believe it leaked from a train car and that no ‘criminal or malicious activity’ was involved - but haven’t said whether the chemical has been found

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