Aug 23, 2013 · A look at the history of sewage in New York City, including the famous Poo Poo Choo Choo that took sludge all the way to Texas.

Mar 20, 2023 · In 1989, a trainload of open sewage sludge from Baltimore – dubbed “the poo poo choo choo” – was turned back from Louisiana, Mississippi and other states whose residents did not want it dumped there.

Nov 20, 1989 · Television network anchors were uttering the words "poo poo choo choo" and "Baltimore" in the same breath. Drive-time morning disc jockeys were in ecstasy. Stone said he heard from a local...

Apr 18, 2018 · For upwards of two months, a train brimming with sewage sludge has been squatting uninvited near fields used for youth baseball, simmering in the afternoon sun, making its noisome presence known...

Jul 27, 2001 · The Texas Observer, the political journal, recently called it ''the poo-poo choo-choo.'' The Long Island company, Merco, had first sought a site in Oklahoma, but after meeting resistance there...

Apr 7, 2018 · There isn't a way to put this mildly: Large containers of human poop have been sitting in an Alabama town since February. "It smells like dead bodies," one resident says.

Oct 14, 2021 · The result was a transportation method affectionately known as "the poop train" (missing an opportunity to refer to it as the more juvenile "poo-poo choo-choo"). Each poop train transports thousands of tons of sewage thousands of miles west. Here's what happens to all of that, uh, material.

Nov 12, 1989 · City officials agreed Friday to reclaim a 5,000-ton rail shipment of sewage sludge, dubbed the "poo-poo choo-choo," that has been refused by two states and threatened with fines of up to $2 million a day.

Apr 13, 2018 · Did you hear the one about the 10 million pounds of human waste sitting in train cars in a small north Alabama town? Or about 5 million tons of the stuff. It’s equal to about 252 tractor-trailer...

Nov 20, 1989 · On board: 5,000 tons of sewage sludge, most of it treated human waste. It is nothing to sniff at. In fact, nobody wants it. The sludge, courtesy of the citizens of Baltimore, set out on...