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The 1971 Chevrolet Vega was rushed to market, but GM found a cheaper way to ship it: the Vert-A-Pac system loaded up to 30 Vegas nose-down in a single railcar, doubling capacity from 15 and slashing shipping costs about 40%. The design required custom vertical railcars with hinged doors, adjustments to fluids and components, and the system disappeared after the Vega (and Pontiac Astre) ended.
Three Metro stations in Washington, D.C., were evacuated due to smoke caused by an insulator fire under a rail car at the Eastern Market station. The closures affected the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines, with service suspended between Federal Center SW and Stadium-Armory stations. One person was taken to the hospital, and shuttle buses were requested while the stations were closed.
A 30-ton shipment of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used to make both fertilizer and explosives, disappeared en route from Wyoming to California. The railcar loaded with 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate from explosives company Dyno Nobel left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12, but two weeks after leaving Cheyenne, the railcar arrived at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert where it was found to be empty. Officials are investigating the disappearance, and Dyno Nobel said that it thought the chemical, which was in pellet form, fell from the covered hopper car it was transported on.
A 30-ton shipment of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used to make both fertilizer and explosives, disappeared from a railcar en route from Wyoming to California. The chemical's supplier, Dyno Nobel, said it thought the shipment, which was in pellet form, fell from the railcar. Officials are investigating the disappearance, but do not believe there is any criminal or malicious activity involved. Ammonium nitrate was the primary explosive used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.