# Freight train carrying hot asphalt, molten sulfur plunges into Yellowstone River **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 25, 2023, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077 "2023-06-25T11:25:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077/41 "2023-06-27T01:19:08Z")
> [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > It was January in Boston. The stuff congealed to pretty darn hard. > > > > Once you warm the molasses back up, you can easily fish out the dead birds, plants, dogs, little kids, whatever was in the block you chopped out of the congealed mess over by the fish cannery. Easy peasy. And oh so yummy. > > And people could have been gathering it for animal feed, like for horses or cows. There were still a lot of them around. Even today, 100+ years later, molasses is still a common ingredient in dairy cow feed. Could have. But the area was working class urban central low-income housing and grubby industry. The locals might have owned chickens, but IMO it’s a good bet nobody there owned a cow or a horse. Even as late as 1915. Plenty of landed gentry out in the country did. But these folks weren’t those folks. ---
**Author:** ![Oooklout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ba8739/32.png) [@Oooklout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oooklout)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077/42 "2023-06-27T20:23:11Z")
[Freight train carrying hot asphalt, molten sulfur plunges into Yellowstone River as bridge fails - guess locals were genuinely lucky there wasn’t a routine shipment of potassium nitrate fertilizer in the train? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077/43 "2023-06-29T19:50:20Z")
Captain Kangaroo orders a lot of them. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077/44 "2023-06-29T20:32:00Z")
As he died 19 years ago, isn’t likely to order many now. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077/45 "2023-06-30T11:16:18Z")
Well, hell. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077/46 "2023-06-30T12:04:00Z")
I’d forgotten about the ping pong ball deluge. Made me smile. Thank you. The actor I know as Captain Kangaroo was gray and mature looking when I was 5. I’m almost 65. Of course he’s dead now. In other news, so is Ed Sullivan and Art Linkletter. Still. Just like Franco. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077/47 "2023-06-30T14:52:25Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Just like Franco. If nobody knew you were ancient before, they do now! I got it instantly. (Hangs head in shame. Strains neck and goes back to bed.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077/48 "2023-06-30T16:39:45Z")
What, is Franco alive for youngsters? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077/49 "2023-06-30T16:41:26Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Just like Franco. ![](https://media.tenor.com/5Z-lf2IeYuUAAAAC/i-understood-that-reference-chris-evans.gif "I Understood That Reference Chris Evans GIF - I Understood That Reference Chris...") [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river/986077.md?page=2)