Posted on 08/22/2025 9:01:57 AM PDT by Morgana
On Febuary 3rd 2023, one of the most controversial train wrecks in recent history would occur in a small Ohio village all because of a burning bearing on a hopper car. But digging deep into the investigation it becomes apparant this derailment and subsequent chemical spill was a lot more than just a simple hotbox as Norfolk Southern's negligent buisness practices become enlightened to the public.
Probably the most anticipated documentary of all time if I'm honest. I cannot tell you how many times people requested this video to be made espesially before the NTSB final report was released but finally the video is out. I was going to release a video on defect detectors to lead into this documentary but outside life decided otherwise so I was forced to shift gears. Look for the link here: (No video yet)
Full interview with me about East Palestine: • Train enthusiast talks train safety follow...
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The NS mainline IIRC has a defect detector so the Defect Detector should have warned about the bad hotbox. Did NS ignore it?
The Defect Detector was defective? Is there a Defective Defect Detector Detector also? Shades of Newman's defective Radar Detector.
Those tank cars could have been safely drained off to trucks or other tank cars.
Bkmk
Notes from the East Palestine disaster:
The burning of chlorinated hydrocarbons (any compound containing carbon, hydrogen and chlorine), has the potential to produce dioxins, Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins (PCDDs).
Heating causes Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) to polymerise (form chlorinated benzine chains). Contact with the air, sunlight and minerals in the soil can act as a catalyst, accelerating the polymerization process.
The controlled burn proceeded after the VCM had been drained into a nearby trench, providing a pathway for PCDD production.
Residents in the area (East Palestine) reported a thin oily residue on windows and other surfaces which would be consistent with fallout from suspended particulate matter (toxins from the controlled burn). Several days later, residents in West Virginia and Maryland reported ash-like particles falling from the sky like snow, accumulating on cars and other surfaces.
Black smoke from incomplete combustion is only one component of this disaster, most likely one of the largest releases of dioxins since Times Beach. A temperature inversion aloft during the burn prevented the contaminants from escaping the boundary layer, causing fumigation near the surface.
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