Damn…..Shady dropping some facts.
The backup of freight around here (NS has the mainline which was once the Erie and Erie/Lackawanna) was horrible in the last few months of 2022. Not enough crews to move the trains. I have attended both the CP and NS First Responder training. I am scared to death of a derailment in our “Hamlet” due to the fact that the mainline runs directly through a mixed residential and commercial area. Although I am retired from the volunteer fire service, I keep current on this stuff. We do have an occasional ethanol train go through. We have hazmat materials on most of the manifest (mixed freight) trains…