By “bomb train,” I mean those trains hauling one or more cars of crude oil, fuel oil, ethanol, methanol, propane, butane, liquified natural gas (methane), ammonium nitrate or high-nitrogen fertilizer, phosphoric acid or some other highly volatile or especially toxic or corrosive cargo. (The list does not include coal train derailments, which, of course, are a whole nuther problem.)  I’ve also indicated whether a detonation resulted.

So far in North America in 2014, we have seen an average of one bomb train derailment every 5 days ….

• 1/07 – Plaster Rock, NB (6 days from Jan. 1), detonation
• 1/20 – Philadelphia, PA (13 days later)
• 1/26 – Edmundston, NB (6 days later)
• 1/28 – Molino, FL (2 days later)
• 1/31 – New Augusta, MS (3 days later)
• 2/06 – Sedalia, CO (6 days later)
• 2/11 – South Shore, KY and Jacksonville, FL (5 days later)
• 2/13 – Vandergrift, PA (2 days later)
• 2/16 – 3 days and counting ….