From: Benjamin.Kubelsky@verizon.net

On 5/15/2014 6:38 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>

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> All the reports I can find say it was IN Glendale, of which Los Angeles
> is a suburb.

Har! At least it wasn't in nearby Beautiful Downtown Burbank! That place
is in need of publicity now that Tonight! has moved back to NYC.

>
>>> A strip club had to be evacuated.
>
> That is sure relevant.  How about the occupants of all the other
> buildings around it?
>

The strip club is more fun!


>>> The pipe was under pressure; oil was seen shooting 20 feet into the sky.
>>>
>>> The oil came from Bakersfield. It's a pumping transfer station sending
>>> oil to a storage facility near Bakersfield.
>
> Must be Southern Pacific--sending oil from Bakersfield to Bakersfield.
> (That pipe used to be, I do believe, used for transferring oil FROM the
> fields west of Bakersfield TO the refineries in El Segundo.
>


I dunno. Back 20 years ago, the oil cans used to run from Bakersfield to
Wilmington (Dolores Yard?) where there are lots of refineries, but this
was for Shell, I think. I used to watch them go through Glendale. The
oil can train was replaced by a pipeline and rarely runs today, as far
as I know.

El Segundo, home of Chevron refinery #2, hence the name, gets it's crude
from ships that dock to a pipe about 1 mile offshore. I can see the
ships from my office building most days. Usually one at the pipe, and 1
or 2 further out, waiting. There IS a rail connection to the El Segundo
refinery, serviced by BNSF, but it crosses Pacific Coast Highway at
grade and I don't recall seeing a train there in decades, though they
may do some switching at night, there isn't anything like a unit train
of oil going there.

This is right near the original (for Southern California) Fry's
Electronics store.

Rest snipped,

Jack

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