Back on September 10th, a 24-inch natural gas pipeline ruptured and exploded in Center Twp, just to the north of Pittsburgh, PA. The explosion, likely caused by a landslide due to the unusually wet year we’ve had so far, caused no injuries, but it demolished a house, and knocked down a half-dozen high tension towers.…
A contractor working on a waterline hit a gas main literally a three minute walk from my front door. Last night around 2am a worker hit the line, rupturing the main and sending a fireball into the sky. One injured worker was taken to the hospital, though no one else was hurt. One family was ordered to evacuate, though…
Almost three months to the day after being closed by flooding, and five weeks after work to restore the line was halted by several rail cars crashing into the Station Square T Platform, the entire Library Blue Line has reopened. Crews replaced tracks washed out by flooding, as well as repairing several stops and…
The top three are here in Bethel Park, 2 &3 are in the same strip mall. From Yinz Can’t Park.
I would even go so far as to call this ‘doog’ news:
Cleanup continued after Sunday’s derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train lead to a dozen or so containers, as well as the rail cars they sat on, either crashing down onto or dangling above the Port Authority’s T tracks a few hundred feet from the Station Square platform.
After yesterday’s derailment, work crews from several different companies have arrived to begin clearing the toppled rail cars from the Port Authority’s tracks, a task that may take two more days.
A Norfolk Southern train bound for Chicago partially derailed this afternoon, with four cars crashing onto the trolley tracks owned by the Port Authority of Allegheny County. None of the containers were carrying toxic materials, though one was full of Listerine. The Port Authority’s T and Bus service that use the…
Nat Geo, formerly the National Geographic Channel (“We sold off extra letters and pass the savings on to you!”) has greenlit a 12-part, half hour series tentatively titled The Curiosity of Jeff Goldblum. The show will feature Goldblum exploring the science and history behind such things as subways, ice cream, toilet…
In addition to being piled high with Mrs. T’s Pierogies, [Primanti’s “Polish Hill”] sandwich will include kielbasa, provolone cheese, hot grilled slaw, beer mustard and tomato between two slices of Italian bread.
The driver of a Chevy truck was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries after the vehicle was struck by a Red Line light-rail trolley this morning in Dormont, just south of Pittsburgh, PA . No one on the trolley was injured, and service was restored about an hour later.
Yeah, it’s like that.
... in the wooorld:
