Planes and trains in the Clark Fork River

Old Clark Fork train wreck

Yet another train has derailed and dumped its load into the lower Clark Fork.  This train had denatured alcohol and airplane fuselages.  Most of the trains that pass through here carry crude oil and open coal cars.  It is only a matter of time before one of these toxic trains derails into the Clark Fork!!  After everything the Clark Fork has been through and the money and resources spent to clean up historic disasters, here we are again, risking it all.

This picture shows an old derailment downstream from Superior.  A couple of years ago there was another which spilled tons and tons of lumber (again lucky!!).  Last year one derailed upstream of Superior at the first big swirly hole down from Forest Grove.  And now this.

Here is the Missoulian article about the derailment.