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More Than a Dozen Trains Have Derailed in the U.S. This Year (but the yearly average is 1,704)
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| February 13, 2023
| Thomas Kika
Posted on 02/14/2023 4:44:19 PM PST by DoodleBob
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Food for thought.
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posted on
02/14/2023 4:44:19 PM PST
by
DoodleBob
To: DoodleBob
It wasn’t an “explosive derailment”. It was a controlled burn of vinyl chloride.
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posted on
02/14/2023 4:52:21 PM PST
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
To: DoodleBob
A derailment likely includes missing a switch track in the yard and rolling off-track for a few feet. NBD.
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posted on
02/14/2023 4:55:02 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: DoodleBob
The average annual number of derailings is 1,704? And this year - by mid-February - we’ve only had about 12, which would be about 110-120 for the year, a more than 90% reduction? My BS meter is flashing.
To: DoodleBob
Sudden Train Wrecks.
mRNA caused?
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posted on
02/14/2023 4:56:45 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Steve_Seattle
Im sure there are levels of derailment.
To: SgtHooper
"A derailment likely includes missing a switch track in the yard and rolling off-track for a few feet. NBD."
I agree. We need to know what constitutes a "derailing."
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
02/14/2023 5:00:59 PM PST
by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: DoodleBob
Good thing we use trains to transport dangerous liquids instead of those nasty pipelines that Brandon saved us from.
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posted on
02/14/2023 5:01:51 PM PST
by
HYPOCRACY
(This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
To: DoodleBob
Solution is simple.....need more money for infrastructure in 3....2....1.
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posted on
02/14/2023 5:17:48 PM PST
by
ealgeone
To: Steve_Seattle
The average annual number of derailings is 1,704? And this year - by mid-February - we’ve only had about 12, which would be about 110-120 for the year, a more than 90% reduction? My BS meter is flashing. Another miracle brought to us by Sleepy Joe LOL
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posted on
02/14/2023 5:48:06 PM PST
by
GaltMeister
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.)
To: DoodleBob
Sudden train wrecks.
Likely because of a Climate Emergency.
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posted on
02/14/2023 5:53:23 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Steve_Seattle
Most are derailments on customer sidings, where the tracks are not in the best of shape, occurring at low speed and the car stays upright.
To: DoodleBob
Derailment is not necessarily a “crash”, so not as universally as exciting and disastrous as people ignorant of railroads (and there are many of them) would think.
And as for 12 so far this calendar year, that implies this is many fewer than the average year.
Of course, most of those being the boring kind of derailment.
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posted on
02/14/2023 6:21:56 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
To: Steve_Seattle
Getting off the rails.
It could be very minor and boring, as mentioned. Or it can be higher speed and result in quite a crash and catastrophe.
Most are probably dull roll-offs from a stub or siding.
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posted on
02/14/2023 6:23:36 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
To: HYPOCRACY
The ROI is fine for trains.
But for many things, it would be more efficient to have a pipeline. Just like Rockefeller figured out.
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posted on
02/14/2023 6:25:09 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
To: Paladin2
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posted on
02/14/2023 6:51:33 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
To: DoodleBob
A derailment is any time a wheel slips off the rail.
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posted on
02/14/2023 7:17:02 PM PST
by
qaz123
To: Steve_Seattle
The author is an ignorant Newsweak flunky.
To: SgtHooper
Derailments happen all the time. Spy balloons have been flying over the U.S. for years. Everybody illegally stores secret documents. Young athletes have been suddenly dropping dead by the thousands for years.
Have I missed anything?
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