Major derailment in Pennsylvania

[jr/shotglass]

Thirty-two of 178 rail cars skip the tracks in the small southwestern Pennsylvania town of Hyndman. Hazardous materials on board, and they're attempting to evacuate the town.

UPDATE: 32 cars derailed at Hyndman, fire still burning

Town's main claim to fame to this point was getting rid of its public high school in favor of a charter school.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Is anyone dead?

 

[jr/shotglass]

No. One residence destroyed, though. And true to central Pennsylvania, I'd heard elsewhere that some of the residents were refusing to leave their homes, a la Centralia.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I figured this thread was going to be about Joe Paterno's shattered legacy.

 

[poindexter]

I figured this thread was going to be about Joe Paterno's shattered legacy.

Well, the thread just got derailed.