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Exclusive: U.S. Officials Address ‘Asymmetric Warfare’ In Recent Train Derailments
Timcast ^ | March 8, 2023 | Adrian Norman
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4136758/posts
If it was heading east the train was probably doing anything it could to keep from getting to the cesspool called Atlanta.
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.
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?
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.
There’s ‘having a bad month’.
Then, there’s having a ‘Norfolk Southern bad month’.
I’m starting to wonder if this doesn’t have something to do with that so called union settlement
Derailed suddenly.
When I was young and teenage, we lived near railroad tracks. My friends and I would get close to the trains as they went by. Wave at the Engineers ask them to blow their horns. And they usually did. A derailment anywhere made the newspapers. Based upon that I would say that 50 plus years ago derailments were VERY rare. Not at all like today.