There’s no evidence that better braking would’ve prevented what happened in Ohio.
If anything the evidence points to the train derailing because one of the axles broke during emergency braking caused by the detection of an overheated axle!
“If anything the evidence points to the train derailing because one of the axles broke during emergency braking caused by the detection of an overheated axle!”
That is very likely. The train passed a detector that signaled a failure, if the bearing area of the axle was red hot when they applied the brakes to the wheels, yes, it would have more than likely just caused what was left of the axle to twist off. The real damage was not really that wheel failure on that one car, it was all the rest of the cars crashing into the already derailed train. Thousands of tons takes awhile to slow to a stop...