Posted on 07/12/2024 7:46:37 AM PDT by george76
333 Amtrak train incidents and only $4 million in equipment damage?
Talk about numbers that DO NOT add up! One derailment alone would probably cost that to repair.
Philosophical Question: If trains “derail,” then why don’t automobiles “deroad”?
Where was the cash injected..?
DEi hires can’t run a railroad, but they still suck up the funding.
Here’s a prime example of something the Trump administration needs to defund, privatize and get rid of. When Nixon took it over, it was supposed to be temporary. That was over 50 years ago.
Like PBS, the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the Dept of Education, the FBI, NPR, and several other federal agencies, it needs to be defunded and gotten rid of.
Well, if it stopped breaking down, the infusions of cash would stop, wouldn’t they? Duh.
If you go through the FRA reports on railroad incidents in the U.S., you’d be surprised how many derailments occur in the U.S. in any given year. You never hear about most of them because they’re minor events that occur at low speeds in rail yards or on sidings.
They do.
It's called "ditch suction".
Usually not as dramatic as derailing though.
Your new word should be in the dictionary, it fits.
No President can eliminate these things. Every AMTRAK station in a crapstain town with three elderly railroad geeks has a Congressman pushing to ensure the station stays there and the rail service never stops.
meh... Everything breaks down.
The cost of living skyrockets, due to Regulations+paybacks to political Donors, via Taxpayers' funding various handouts, and the continuous hiring of over-paid, meaningless jobs, and DEI hires by government AT ALL LEVELS (also known as government Union "Labor").
DEI maintenance crews.
>>>meh... Everything breaks down.
Yup, but some more than others.
I don’t trust AMTRAK for spit. They allowed an activist faggot engineer to obliviously enter a sharp turn at over 100 mph several years ago, resulting in a horrific crash killing dozens and injuring hundreds. He escaped without ANY consequences.
>If you go through the FRA reports on railroad incidents in the U.S., you’d be surprised how many derailments occur in the U.S. in any given year. You never hear about most of them because they’re minor events that occur at low speeds in rail yards or on sidings.
IIRC, there are around a dozen derailments per week. Most are minor.
My question is: Where’s “Pistol” Pete Buttigieg at on this. I mean after all he (sic) is the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Seems like quite a lot of these things have been happening since he took command, trains derailing, doors and wheels falling off airplanes, 30 tons of ammonium nitrate disappearing while enroute from WY to CA, etc.
No one wants to ride the rails when, in most cases, driving is quicker and cheaper. Not to mention the increased local taxes.
I swore afterwards that I would never ride Amtrak again, and I never have.
10% for the Big Guys.
AMTRAK - make-work project for lazy minorities.
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