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Over 60,000 Pounds Of Ammonium Nitrate Goes Missing From Train

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Erin Marquis
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A yellow Union Pacific train car sits under a cloudy sky in California. The words Union Pacific are outlined in black, the inside painted red.
A yellow Union Pacific train car sits under a cloudy sky in California. The words Union Pacific are outlined in black, the inside painted red.


A Union Pacific locomotive at a rail yard in City of Industry, California, US, on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.

Thirty tons of a potentially explosive chemical went missing from a sealed train car in April, and no one has any clue where it went.

The good news is that Union Pacific doesn’t have any evidence that the chemical, ammonium nitrate, was stolen with untoward purposes. The bad news is that neither UP nor the company that produced the explosive, Dyno Nobel, have any idea where it went. Right now, the best guess is it all leaked out during the train’s two plus weeks journey from Wyoming to California, since the car was sealed before it left Wyoming and was still sealed when it arrived at its destination, according to the New York Times:

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