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[Update below] Stanley Thomas Wright, 47, was asphyxiated on Saturday, August 2, while working inside a tank car at a railyard in North Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the local fire department was called to the scene at about 1:00 am Wright’s co-workers said he lost consciousness while inside the railcar tanker Fox5 reports the railcar contained ethanol vapors and Wright was overcome by the gas it took fire and rescue crews until mid-day Saturday to make the scene safe This incident brings to mind Ingrid Lobet's reporting from May in the Houston Chronicle: "Largely invisible…