Posted on 04/02/2023 2:32:03 PM PDT by CFW
A train derailment every 17 days in each state equals 1073, so the numbers aren’t that far off. (365/17=21.47x50=1073.5). I assume most of them aren’t major derailments but minor problems that are nevertheless counted as accidents by the DOT.
Where is Homeland Security? I’m sure they are out painting rainbows on overpasses and putting on drag shows at pre-schools.
I would guess with the recent headlines and attention from some in congress that they would want to tighten it up a bit but the railroad, like most big companies, may just find it cheaper to pay the politicians and the fines.
This one was scary though - imagine if that was a chemical train and it went into the river. That is such a beautiful county.
The Infrastructure bill was only $1.2 trillion. I guess that covers the cost of male breastfeeding programs. I suppose we need to spend another trillion or two.
You are not off base.
Unions have a way of payback.
Sleepy Joe forced a bad deal on them, now it is payback time.
Soylent Green
If NPR is to be believed:
Federal Railroad Administration data show that derailments occur regularly, at a steady rate of about 1,250 per year over the past decade.
In 2022, there were more than 1,000 train derailments in the U.S. There were at least 1,164 train derailments across the country last year, according to data from the Federal Railroad Administration. That means the country is averaging roughly three derailments per day.
Good thing the late Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder gave it up riding the rails before it got so bad.
I read that single car derailments are very common, but the number of multi-car derailments involving six or more rail cars is apparently not that common. Of course, a derailment is a derailment, but now I have to go look for the source from where I read the information that we have had more multi-car derailments recently.
Of course, every single article on a google search informs me that train derailments are very common and there are about 3 a day on our railroads. Apparently, the word has gone out to inform the populous that “train derailments are common” since every corporate media outlet is eager to inform me of that fact.
First it was food production facilities, now its trains!
DOT needs to come down hard on the railroads. The railroads to save costs have cut back on routine maintenance, gandy dancers, section hands and the like to save money.
Re: 4 - thank you for doing that. Wish more people did so.
Publishing that sort of historical data by the public and news media also helps to quiet down the conspiracy theorist mouth breathers.
eco terrorists antifa with the FBI’ and homeland security’s blessings
It was beer!
Too bad it wasn’t Bud light! That would have made a heck of a commercial. “Bud light—what a train wreck!”
“The fire department said the rail cars that reached the river either were empty or were carrying Coors Light and Blue Moon beer products. It said the products were “secured in the derailment area” and were not “floating down the river.”
Too bad it wasn’t buttwiper tranny beer.
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