If it happened a mile down the track, it would have wiped out a whole town.
Joe Manchin: “If it happened a mile down the track, it would have wiped out a whole town.”
On the recordMarch 2, 2015
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Manchin discusses the potential devastation from a recent train accident in West Virginia.
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