Welcome! Log In Create A New Profile

NNG: Explosion Blows Boiler Through Wall and onto CSX tracks

Previous Message Next Message

Forum List Message List New Topic Print View

Chris Webster

September 02, 2014 04:15PM

Admin
Registered: 16 years ago
Posts: 2,472

A different type of boiler explosion:

Quote

An explosion resulting from a buildup of natural gas blew a 4,000-gallon boiler through a wall and onto railroad tracks at Whitlock Packaging Corporation in Lakeland this morning.

Link: TheLedger - Explosion Blows Boiler Through Wall at Lakeland Facility

The boiler weighs 30 tons when empty.

--
Chris Webster

Reply Quote

Message List Previous Message Next Message

RSS

Subject	Author	Posted
NNG: Explosion Blows Boiler Through Wall and onto CSX tracks	Chris Webster	September 02, 2014 04:15PM
Re: NNG: Explosion Blows Boiler Through Wall and onto CSX tracks	dougvv	September 02, 2014 04:36PM
Re: NNG: Explosion Blows Boiler Through Wall and onto CSX tracks	CS BROWN	September 02, 2014 05:47PM
Re: NNG: Explosion Blows Boiler Through Wall and onto CSX tracks	Tomstp	September 02, 2014 06:12PM
Re: NNG: Explosion Blows Boiler Through Wall and onto CSX tracks	dougvv	September 02, 2014 09:17PM
Re: NNG: Explosion Blows Boiler Through Wall and onto CSX tracks	guymonmd	September 03, 2014 06:10AM
Re: NNG: Explosion Blows Boiler Through Wall and onto CSX tracks	Tom Moungovan	September 03, 2014 06:15AM
Re: NNG: Explosion Blows Boiler Through Wall and onto CSX tracks	Kelly Anderson	September 03, 2014 08:07AM

Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.

Click here to login

488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter

The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.