Posted on 03/09/2023 12:29:08 PM PST by CFW
Hours before Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw appeared before Congress on Thursday, another of the rail operator's trains derailed in Alabama.
Around 37 train cars came off the tracks in Calhoun County, according to the Calhoun County Emergency Management Agency.
"There are no injuries and no reports of leaks of hazmat also, we have no road blockages," it said in a Facebook post.
Norfolk Southern told FOX Business in an emailed statement that the incident occurred in Piedmont.
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If it was heading east the train was probably doing anything it could to keep from getting to the cesspool called Atlanta.
WTH?
I suspect our Nation’s infrastructure has been allowed to deteriorate rather badly.
“I know derailments are common, but are there really more of them than usual? Or is the media just more fixated upon them lately?”
Surprised Democrats aren’t blaming Trump and screaming for pipelines to be built. Oh wait. They are blaming Trump.
That is the question.
And NS is sounding like a company that needs to be shut down.
The latter.
Yep, a regular train wreck.
It's not just the infrastructure; it's also that the talented individuals won't take such thankless jobs anymore.
“Yep, a regular train wreck.”
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Sorta sums up our Sec. of Transportation and the Biden administration altogether, doesn’t it?
Odd, seems like this was kinda the point of the rail unions back in November and December that there was serious problems with rail safety conditions. Biden and congress forced an agreement on them. Media not really pointing that out for obvious reasons.
Wasn’t bi-dung just in Alabama?
I am far from an expert on trains but I know a little bit about industrial automation and sensor technology. From what I have read about the East Palestine derailment it sounds like part of the cause was overheating wheel bearings. With modern wireless sensors and transmitters I am a little surprised that there is not a push to install cheap wireless temperature transmitters in all of the wheel bearings continuously sending data to the cab (or back to a NS central monitoring station). Seems to me that given the relatively low cost of these systems it would only take a few avoided accidents before these systems paid for themselves.
Is it time to have a ‘sacrificial’ engine, or scooter car precede the train (at train stopping distance) to detect track ‘damage’ or sabotage?
And all this time I thought Obozo had fixed this years ago. Gee, I wonder where the money went.
This is the industry deferring needed maintenance for profits. Department of Transportation needs to hammer the operators to upgrade. This happened in the 1970’s too.
Calhoun County Alabama (includes Fort McClellan and the city of Anniston) are West of Atlanta.
https://time.com/6260906/train-derailmentments-how-common/
The Department of Transportations’ Federal Railroad Administration has reported an average of 1,475 train derailments per year between 2005-2021.
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