Aside from the personnel issues, (thank you for posting that, BTW) they must be neglecting track and rolling stock maintenance. Speaking as a retired engineer (the slide-rule and pocket-protector kind) these derailments should be vanishingly rare if the equipment is properly designed, built and maintained. We can do it if the bigwigs let us.
They’re neglecting everything, actually. They don’t have enough workers to perform the work.
They fired 1000s. But for some reason, the genius CEOs and COOs didn’t count on retirements, resignations or the fact that they trimmed too many folks.
And I’m not sure if Positive Train Control ever went into effect. That was something that was being pushed to reduce the need for additional crew and for the switches to be manipulated remotely. IE someone in Jacksonville, Fla could manipulate a switch on a CSX track in West Virginia, through wifi. Gee, I wonder what could go wrong there