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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