Did Norfolk Southern neglect safety protocols in pursuit of DEI and ESG initiatives?
DEFINITELY!!! A video has been repeatedly posted here that shows the flaming hot box about 20 miles before the train derailed. Neither the train’s crew nor anybody else acted on it even though it ran at least half the length of the affected car. If the man sitting on the left side of the locomotive had just stuck his head out to look at the train as it went around a left turn, the hot box would have been spotted and the tragedy averted.