So it’s basically awareness being increased, not necessarily incidents increasing.
See above-—I honestly don’t know what’s going on...Rodway spills are way up while toxic train spills seem to be down.
Are regulations shifting from train to truck? Are we making less chemicals in the USA? Is it safer and just being reported more?
Sorry, the guy who bought the Camus Prairie RR did so for the iron scrap value only. He only operated it until he was forced to repair overpasses by the govt. Then he shut it down and pulled all the iron out and abandoned it.
What forced him to close it was a derailment on an overpass going over a creek. Two or three of the cars centerbeam flat cars derailed and tipped over.
As I said earlier, this happens all the time. We even get calls from insurance companies with salvage loads of lumber.
Sometimes there might only be 75% of the shipment left. The rest got throw away or stolen. Lumber laying on the side of the tracks especially near Indian reservations gets scooped up really quick.