Rail Car of ‘Nonhazardous’ Material Blows Up by the Railroad-Themed Hardy Yards Site

Apr 24, 2017 |

Union Pacific gives KHOU the answer to yesterday’s entry in the semi-regular citywide game of what’s-that-mysterious-cloud-of-smoke: a railcar loaded with lithium batteries headed to a recycling plant, which caught fire and exploded early Sunday evening. The blowout happened on a stretch of tracks skirting the southern edge of the former railyard now being redeveloped into the Hardy Yards mixed use […more]

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