Turns out that railroad company shot down multiple laws that would enforce electric braking, label carcinogens and toxins, modernize the railroad, and add safety features.
Edit: The reason Norfolk refused to have the brakes updated to ECP brakes was because they claim it cost to much. republican lawmakers sided with them and didn’t find the study proving their effectiveness transparent enough and claimed it was missing to much data. Even though the rest of the world also used ECP braking.
The weather did not favor them, that day it restricted the raising of the chemicals into the air for dispersal. Instead it got stuck lower the the ground and eventually came back down.
To add to this, the wheel / brake that fail was on fire for at least 42 minutes / 20 miles prior to derailment. I work in Salem Ohio and we have footage from 8:12 pm that night showing just that. I’ll link the Facebook page with the info
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u/Meme_Theocracy Feb 15 '23 edited Feb 16 '23
Turns out that railroad company shot down multiple laws that would enforce electric braking, label carcinogens and toxins, modernize the railroad, and add safety features.
Edit: The reason Norfolk refused to have the brakes updated to ECP brakes was because they claim it cost to much. republican lawmakers sided with them and didn’t find the study proving their effectiveness transparent enough and claimed it was missing to much data. Even though the rest of the world also used ECP braking.
The weather did not favor them, that day it restricted the raising of the chemicals into the air for dispersal. Instead it got stuck lower the the ground and eventually came back down.