Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston and Maine locomotive crashed into a tank car on a railroad siding in the Somerville train yard at 9 a.m. yesterday, cutting a large gash in the side of the 13,000 gallon tank and sending the liquid streaming...
...late evening yesterday, most of the liquid had been pumped into two tank trucks and taken away from the site...
Firemen in gas masks shoveled debris off the track to help the liquid drain off into the pit, from which workers later pumped it into a waiting tank truck...
...flow from the damaged car slowed shortly after 1 p.m., after the level of liquid in the tank fell below the gash. Workers also attempted to plug the leak with insulation material...
...fumes almost knocked me down--I was choking and crying," Norman A. Lally, general agent of the train yard who was sitting in a trailer 15 feet from the tank car when the accident occurred, said yesterday...