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To: Carriage Hill
In 2018, the Department of Transportation (DOT) withdrew a rule proposed three years earlier requiring trains carrying certain dangerous chemicals to utilize electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes, saying the technology's benefits were inconclusive.

I doubt that had anything to do with this crash.

31 posted on 02/15/2023 2:03:55 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

So where the rules ever in place before being withdrawn ?
I doubt Obama, Trump, and Biden are exactly experts on the braking systems on trains anyways so I wouldn’t really blame any of them anyways.


34 posted on 02/15/2023 2:13:46 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MileHi

Either speed of treachery was the cause


65 posted on 02/15/2023 2:45:00 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: MileHi

From a radio interview with the Congressman from this area, an axle on the train quit working due to bearing failure several miles before the derailment site. ECP would not have affected this train derailment.


91 posted on 02/15/2023 4:35:08 PM PST by MortMan (You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
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