MINIMUM TWO TRAIN SPILLS NOT ONE IN KITCHENER-WATERLOO

After last summer's horrific train derailment and fire in Lac Megantic we were advised that there had been a train derailment in Waterloo around October 2012. Apparently nothing leaked and damages were minimal. It is my recollection that the train cars were on their way to Chemtura in Elmira. Well simply by chance I stumbled upon another past train derailment. This one occurred by the Electrohome plant in Kitchener on October 25, 2001. The Waterloo Region Record carried the story and the somewhat misleading title was "Wind blows tank car off track". In reality the wind was a contributing factor in that it was strong enough to get several parked railcars moving on the tracks. Then they derailed. There are issues here in regards again to the braking system on these "parked" railcars. The other bad news is that this time there was a leak of a chemical bound again for Uniroyal/Chemtura, known as Decene. We are informed in the article that Decene is a non-toxic but flammable liquid. Apparently we were lucky in that this leak didn't cause a fire. As far as being non-toxic I'll just do a little check on Mr. Google to determine if that's correct.