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Posted on 02/14/2023 2:24:38 PM PST by libstripper
deo is raising questions for people in East Palestine, Ohio, CBS Pittsburgh reports.
The video, which captured the train 20 miles before it reached the site where it derailed, is raising questions about when the crew knew there was a problem.
The video, obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was taken by a security camera at an equipment plant in Salem, Ohio. What appears to be sparks and flames can be seen in the video under one of the train cars as it passes the plant. The National Transportation Safety Board referenced the video at a news conference last week.
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A comment posted under that YouTube:
“Dave, I have confirmation that it WAS indeed a burned off journal. Inside wheel, and what’s causing all the sparks is the wheel is being pulled against the brake beam and causing the wheels to slide at high speed. The bearing was trending for 3 detectors prior, the dispatched failed to notify the crew. Like you had said this all started right after the Salem detector and by the time they got to the E. Palestine detector it was beginning to derail. They went into emergency before the engineer could react, and that’s all she wrote. This information comes directly from NS supervision at Conway yard, relayed to my my supervision.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RNe3QW3aHI
So it was basically human failure? That is, the dispatcher didn’t notify the train crew until too late?
The residents of E. Palestine, Ohio will end up owning the NS RR when this is over, as well they should.
That would be the outcome in a just society where the rule of law counted for something but I get the impression that that ship sailed some years ago.
“the dispatcher didn’t notify the train crew until too late?”
That’s what it sounds like. And if dispatchers are being pressured to disregard warnings to keep trains moving there ought to be criminal liability leading right up the ladder to Norfolk Southern management.
I have a strong suspicion that this originates with Precision Rairoading. That’s a data driven innovation among Class 1 railroads that appears to completely subordinate safety to risk laden financial benefit. And as we see with this accident the risk falls on people who live anywhere near a railroad.
Years of accumulated experience in real world railroad safety gets tossed out the window with trains being treated as if they are digits in a computer game.
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