town attend saw the rail cars rumble by. in lynchburg, in addition to the fires and explosions a bunch of tanker cars full of oil also dumped their contents into the james river. it caused the evacuation of hundreds of people. incredibly, nobody was killed. this keeps happening. the trains seem fine on the tracks but one after the other we've watched as these oil trains rolling with increasing frequency through towns large and small all across the country one after another we have watched these trains full of oil jump the tracks for whatever reason they derail they erupt then we just hope they aren't too close to any major population centers and wait for days while local first responders try to contain the fires because local fire departments don't have the power to put these things out. so really they burn for days. but in that equation in that derail, erupt, burn for days equation, the erupting part is not necessarily a given.