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    CHILHOWIE - The distinct smell of beer still hung in the air Thursday after a train hauling it derailed the night before.Fourteen cars in an 83-car Norfolk Southern train bound for Roanoke skipped the tracks at around 10:30 p.m. near Deer Valley Industrial Park. Last year, another Norfolk Southern train derailed at night near the same spot. Three cars carrying beer leaked about 20,000 gallons onto the ground, said railway spokesman Robin Chapman. No one was injured, he said. Investigating officers said the leak did not contaminate any nearby water sources, nor did it affect any highways. "Everything was contained away from the creek," said Jack Tolbert Jr. of the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. "The creek is about 50 feet away, but there’s a berm. Everything landed on the interstate side rather than the creek side."


    The derailment could have been worse, Tolbert said. In addition to beer, some of the cars held coal, vegetable oil and acids. Some were empty but had contained acetone. Those cars probably still had residue of the flammable chemical solvent, he said. Authorities were investigating what caused the derailment. The investigation could take days or weeks to complete, Chapman said. Betty Haga, who lives about 50 feet from the railroad tracks and a half-mile from where the cars derailed, said she heard the train stop Wednesday night. At first, she didn’t know what happened.


    "About two hours later, you wouldn’t believe all the trucks and equipment and the machinery and bright lights that they had out there," she said.She found out Thursday morning that the train had skipped the tracks. The railroad has procedures to deal with derailments when they happen, Chapman said. "We work quickly to get it clear and get the tracks back in working order," he said. All trains scheduled to use the tracks through Chilhowie were held until the tracks were cleared Thursday evening.


    Staff Writer Diette Courrégé and the Smyth County News & Messenger contributed to this report.

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    What a waste of beer.......................... ....

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    Just think of all of the starving children in third world countries who don't have any beer at all!
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    Quote Originally Posted by merc
    Three cars carrying beer leaked about 20,000 gallons onto the ground ....
    Boy, is Phil gonna be disappointed. He moves to Texas and they start spilling beer in Virginia.

    Several years ago, a Budweiser trailer rolled on the I-495 Beltway near Braddock Road spilling bottles and cans onto the highway. Not much useable product remained by the time the scavengers were through. Talk about "rubbernecking" both the inner loop and outer loop of the Capitol Beltway were stopped as people collected the booty. Apparently, in Virginia there must be an unwritten law that allows "Free Beer" at the site of any vehicle accident involving this beverage. Not sure if it applies to other products.
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    Beer train in Lake Forest, Illinois

    In 1974, the C&NW, Chicago and Northwestern or better know as Cheap and Nothing Wasted, had a derailment at the Lake Bluff station. One of the intermodal cars had two trailer loads of beer from Milwaukee. Before the railroad cops got to the scene, the students from Lake Forest College and Lake Forest High School had one party.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ross
    Just think of all of the starving children in third world countries who don't have any beer at all!
    Ha Ha Ha Ha


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ross
    Just think of all of the starving children in third world countries who don't have any beer at all!
    now that is funny!!
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    [QUOTE=merc] The derailment could have been worse, Tolbert said. In addition to beer, some of the cars held coal, vegetable oil and acids. Some were empty but had contained acetone. Those cars probably still had residue of the flammable chemical solvent, he said. QUOTE]

    Bud, most likely, Phill would never drink that stuff. Did you notice some of the cars had acid and acetone in 'em. They prolly mix the Bud right in, I mean, who'd know the difference? I was talking to a trucker who was taking a load of Utz's Patato Chips to St. Louis. To bad I said, you have to return with an empty truck. Hell no, he said. we fill 'em up with horse**** for the mushroom growers on the return trip!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Poore
    In addition to beer, some of the cars held coal, vegetable oil and acids. Some were empty but had contained acetone.
    Hey, that's the secret formula for Guiness ... Budweiser, vegetable oil, coal dust, and acetone. Phil missed this opportunity.
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