From Natalie Neysa Alund's 5-23-23 USA TODAY article entitled "30-ton Shipment of Explosive Chemicals Missing from Railroad Car After Trip Across West":
A 30-ton shipment of a chemical that can be used as fertilizer or an explosive is missing from a California-bound railroad car after rail officials confirmed it disappeared during a trip across the West last month.
The railcar, loaded with more than 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, left Cheyenne, Wyoming on April 12, a Union Pacific spokesperson told USA TODAY Tuesday. Two weeks later it was found empty at a rail stop in the California Mojave Desert, according to a report filed with the federal National Response Center on May 10.
Dyno Nobel said the material, transported in pellet form in a covered hopper car similar to those used to ship coal, likely fell from a rail car on the way to a rail siding (a short track connecting with the main track), about 30 miles from Mojave in Kern County, just east of Bakersfield.
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From Kathianne Boniello's 5-20-23 NEW YORK POST article entitled "60,000 Pounds of Explosive Chemical Ammonium Nitrate Lost in Shipping":
Explosives company Dyno Nobel reported the vanishing ammonium nitrate — the main ingredient in Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bomb in Oklahoma City — to the federal National Response Center on May 10, KQED reported.
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