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About 135 miles of active rail lines weave through Lancaster County carrying rail cars that at any point could be filled with hazardous material such as vinyl chloride, the chemical
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Late last month, Norfolk Southern hosted three days of safety training in Harrisburg for emergency responders from across central Pennsylvania. The training provided by the company, which owns railroads stretching
We were both shocked and impressed by the in-depth reporting done by LNP ‘ LancasterOnline and WITF on what the news organizations called “toxic trains.”
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The trains that run along about 135 active miles of rail in Lancaster County can at any point be carrying hazardous material. But real-time information on those materials is nearly impossible to get, because in a post-9/11 environment, railroads aren’t required to share that information. That secrecy means emergency responders might not know what hazardous materials they’re dealing with until they reach the scene, and that there is no single, consistent way to find the information at the scene – all of which could potentially slow their response or put them in danger. State a...