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Jeniffer Mizenko's 18-month-old son usually eats meals at a hand- me-down wooden table, looking out through lace-fringed curtains at the freight trains that chug past the edge of their New Brighton backyard.

Like many who live near the tracks, his mother had become so used to the screeching sounds of locomotives that she hardly registered alarm at the first thunderous clap that sounded from the railway Friday night.

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Wreck Cuts Train Link

She panicked only moments later when firefighters banged on the door and pointed to a roiling inferno -- where 23 tanker cars carrying ethanol across a half-mile-long bridge jumped the tracks, some of them falling into the Beaver River. Nine of them caught fire. Two exploded.

"I was thinking the world was coming to an end, I guess," Mizenko, 23, said Saturday.

The fire and fears of subsequent explosions prompted author...

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