Someone call First-Openly-Gay Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and let him know that the U.S. rail network is actively losing literal metric tons of extremely dangerous material:

Some 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as both fertilizer and a component in explosives, went missing as it was shipped by rail from Wyoming to California last month, prompting four separate investigations.

A railcar loaded with 30 tons of the chemical left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12. The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, according to a short incident report from the explosives firm that made the shipment.

Uh, okay. Just like that, 60,000 pounds of explosive chemicals disappear.

Just to really hammer this point home: Ammonium nitrate was most famously used by terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to perpetuate the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

That bomb was made with less than 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate. And it did this to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building:

So yeah, it's kinda really alarming that 12 times as much NH4NO3 is just missing.

Company Dyno Nobel, meanwhile, thinks it's figured out what happened:

"The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale. The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit," the company said through a spokesperson.

"A leak through the bottom gate" may have drained out 60,000 pounds of explosive material? Yeah we're gonna need a more fulsome explanation than that.

A Federal Railroad Administration investigation, meanwhile, points to "one of the hopper car gates not being properly closed." Well, whatever it is, figure it out, people. We need a huge team of investigators walking the entire length of that track to confirm if this is true or not. And all of that nitrate should be counted for. Don't let a dozen pounds of it get away.