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UPDATE: Change in Train Brake Requirements During the TRUMP Administration May Have Led to East Palestine, OH Train Disaster

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The derailed train used conventional air brakes, as opposed to electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes.

"Norfolk Southern among others said, 'Oh ECP brakes were unreliable and failed often' and so on and so on. That is not documented anywhere other than in that statement," said Steve Ditmeyer (a former head of research and development at the Federal Railroad Administration).

He said when the Federal Railroad Administration tested ECP brakes, the train crews loved them because of their ability to handle the train and its speed and stop it at a shorter distance.

In 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation made it a requirement for trains carrying hazardous, flammable materials to use electronic brakes.

In 2018, the Department of Transportation removed the requirement, citing a study that the cost outweighed the benefits.
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https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/special-reports/dig-in-2-it/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-and-toxic-chemicals/83-ff16cb4c-b90e-48fa-9530-441b71770761
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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
But the railroads are private enterprises, capitalist enterprises. Who wants government interference, that is socialism! 😉
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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@sunsporter1649 you are again showing how stupid you really are. corporate profit and losses are publicly reported and available for review! Again, DATA that cannot be faked. Even when a disaster occurs, you take on a defense that is crazy
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@samueltyler2 LOL, you forgot the detail on how much in taxes the railroad pays, funny how those details kinda slip past you left-wing nut-job marxists
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
Correct... The ECP brakes became law under Obama.. The law was repealed under Trump.. And now Bidens boy (I refuse to learn his name) is getting blamed for not running the whole thing through congress to make it law again (in a Republican controlled Congress).. 😷
The immediate fires are out, but whatever chemicals hit the Ohio river have a long and populous route to the sea.




BackyardShaman · 61-69, M
They see safety as socialism whatever socialism is
Not surprising.
ron122 · 41-45, M
When you get your period do you blame Trump for that too?
ron122 · 41-45, M
@whowasthatmaskedman It's so sad you don't have a sense of hummer.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@ron122 What is far sadder is what you consider humourous..😷
ron122 · 41-45, M
@whowasthatmaskedman What an old prude you are.🤮
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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@MarmeeMarch we always planned for. Terrorist attacking a tanker. One sharpshooter with a high powered rifle can bring real havoc.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@samueltyler2
It is easy to be a Monday Morning Quarterback in this case, but in all honesty, no one thought this would happen this way, this soon. Just like no one expected a plane to fly into a building and bring it down.

That is not the case.

There WERE people who worried about terrorists flying into a building and bring it down.

There's the Samuel Byck hijacking of Delta Air Lines Flight 523 in 1974 and his plot to crash into the White House in an attempt to assassinate Richard Nixon. He had murdered Maryland Aviation Administration policeman George Neal Ramsburg then fatally-wounded co-pilot Fred Jones and ordered pilot Reese (Doug) Loftin (who he also shot) to take off before the heroic delaying actions of a flight attendant and then by Anne Arundel County police officer Charles Troyer, who shot Byck through the door of the aircraft with a .357 Magnum revolver taken from the deceased Ramsburg.

There's the Air France Flight 8969 hijacking, which was a 1994 plot to crash into the Eiffel Tower.

And of course the FBI agent who wrote in a 2001 memo that he was afraid that Zacarias Moussaoui was going to hijack a jumbo jet over the Atlantic and "fly it into the World Trade Center."

Ever see the pilot of "The Lone Gunman"? It was a spin-off from "The X-Files" and aired on March 4, 2001, with the plot being rogue members of the government to crash a jetliner into...


[media=https://youtu.be/FcZ6HXIOmYE]

So, sorry. There were people both in and out of govenment, in and out of the U.S., who had thought of that.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@beckyromero interestingly, i was heavily involved in disaster planning. No one mentioned those. Do you realize today is the anniversary of the attempt to bring down the Twin Towers with a truck bomb. I guess 30 years ago today, 1993.

We met after that to look at 'target hardening."we split into groups, each chose a target to work on. I insisted to my group, if I were a terrorist I would go after the twin towers. None of the state police, fbi members at the meeting mentioned any of those.
We had one like that in Seattle.
American high speed rail is when you simply floor it in a train.
Then, booooom!
Does sucking up to Mayor Pete make you wet?
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@jackjjackson you are a sick puppy. You defend the corrupt #45 no matter the evidence. This crash was a preventable incident!
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