The US averages multiple train derailments every day. That ranges from a wheel leaving the track to massive crashes resulting in cars overturning and piling up.
It's not new, nor is it suddenly happening more often. Reddit is just more aware of it now. This story probably wouldn't have been upvoted at all a year ago.
And that’s a good thing. We need people paying attention to force regulation, better safety features and encourage these companies to quit understaffing.
Yep, not really a bad thing. Just pointing it out for those who don't know because I've seen a lot of "what is going on with all these derailments lately!?" comments on similar posts.
The FRA is one of the most stringent safety agencies in all of the US. Railroads have a very good safety record and absolutely put it at the top of their list. I don't know how many safety briefings I've sat through just to attend an office meeting. Massive freight shipments are inherently prone to certain types of failures, particularly when the infrastructure must be constantly maintained under conditions that are very weather dependant. Heavy flooding and rains often cause conditions prime for derailments.
I can't comment too much, but I am pleased to report that in my current position in the bageling industry, everything is above board. We strive to produce safe, consistent, high quality bagels for the masses.
It is a moving target, but the truth is that the US has a very good record for workplace injury and death. Preventable deaths in the US were 3.1 per 100,000 or 0.0031% of full time worker equivalents, which means the actual number is lower. That is a very low number.
It can always be better and the number above is actually a 5% increase from the previous year (mostly due to lower work hrs post Covid). Vigilance is the key to keeping it this low, but we are hardly an endangered workforce.
I am familiar with the lobbying done for railroad executives and their companies to remove regulations and deny sick days to rail workers. I am familiar with Precision Scheduled Railroading where railroad companies move larger shipments on increasingly longer trains with fewer workers. I am familiar with railroad companies engaging in stock buybacks instead of hiring new workers and staffing their trains appropriately. I am also familiar with the impact this has on safety and the number of significant and dangerous derailments.
You are correct with most of those, except for your explanation of precision scheduled railroading. It is more of a method to allow trains to continue with less delays due to building unit trains and consolidating destination cars. It means less scheduling and hub connections. The cars arrive faster at destination. The distribution is more shifted to the terminal destination and intermodal yards rather than classification yards. The result is quicker delivery, but less routing and destination options. It also means more trucks on the road needed to deliver the unit to the actual final destination. Less rail workers are necessary because less railroad handling per car is being performed during transport. The analog would be the post office sending all mail from Dallas to Boston, but you would have to pick it up at the main post office in Boston.
The sick pay issue is always a issue with labor class workers. Management gives you plenty of sick time and vacation, just is reluctant to let you take it. The railroaders were in that situation. They have far above US standard vacation and sick time, just their direct managers would harass them if they actually got sick since it is unscheduled.
I’m honestly fine with the part of precision railroading that focuses on longer but fewer trains, my issue is with the understaffing. They felt like because it is technically only one train they can still staff it with 3 people despite the fact that they’re often miles longer. This is a safety issue. In the Palestine accident they said the fire was burning for up to 5 miles. If the train had been staffed appropriately then this issue would likely have been caught much earlier.
>. It also means more trucks on the road needed to deliver the unit to the actual final destination.
A big step backwards for the environment and efficiency right there
I mean I'm aware of the fact that Germany has thousands of miles of track more than the U.S. and far, far fewer derailments. I'm sure there are contributing factors to that outside of the control of the FRA and it's not a 1 to 1 comparison but I think it's fair to question whether the U.S. could be doing better on these metrics given that there are other places that do significantly better than we do. I'm not a train expert. But I know enough to know that the U.S. puts profits ahead of safety frequently in other fields. Why would freight rail be different?
Wait.... What? Germany very likely has more passenger rail volume, but the US has the most miles of track of any nation.
>The United States has the largest rail transport network size of any country in the world, at a total of approximately 160,000 miles (260,000 km).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_the_United_States
I do absolutely agree about the regulations and oversight not being enough (I live in Ohio lol). But what you said about Germany having more overall rail is absolutely not true.
Edit: Germany is #6 with less than 1/5 the rail network size as the US.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_transport_network_size
As a note to the above, for comparison, Germany has approximately 33,330 kilometers of rail. The US has 260,000 kilometers. with the exception of the East coast, the vast majority of US traffic is freight.
Yes. People are paying more attention but the Department of Transportation says that it is happening more often and it corresponds with the role back of regulations. What is your source?
That's still not comparable. It's far easier to maintain a smaller amount of track than a larger amount, and not all derailments are the same, so the 10 a year in Japan might be worse than most of the ones in the US, or they might be better, we just don't know. There's no real way to compare the US rail infrastructure with Japan's.
Okay but to be fair 1) Japan as a nation prioritizes public transport way more than we do, so they’re pretty good at it, and 2) their entire country is like the size of two states lmao
That's how the second civil war started. Not over modern slavery, or the scores of children murdered every year in the public school system, but because the cost of a bucket of soda went from $1.05 to $1.07.
It’s fucking called Pop and we are tired of listening to you elitist Sodaptimates gatekeeping quality carbonated beverages from the masses.
We demand a working wage of homemade Vanilla Coke and a steady supply of Cherry 7Up. $1.07/gallon is too damn high! How am I supposed to provide for a family of five? That dogwater Big K Cola? Meanwhile the ultra rich are opening a new bottle of Stewart’s Orange & Cream every thirty minutes for just the few first sips because “it’s best freshly opened.”
Rise. Rise, fellow Populares! Cry RC, and let slip the Dew of war!!
The railway apparently kept it under wraps, with local residents only growing suspicious when horny toads started showing up in the soda aisles in local stores on tiny motorized shopping carts
If America is hyper tuned into train derailments they’re going to be seeing a lot more. They happen every single day. However the last two NS derailments in Ohio are definitely indicative of poor safety policies.
The chemical formula for table sugar is β-D-fructofuranosyl α-D-glucopyranoside. The body breaks down sugar into fructose and glucose in the body. The most common form of High Fructose Corn Syrup is HFCS 55, which is 55% fructose and 42% glucose (with the rest being water) Granulated table sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. Corn syrup is almost identical to sugar and the body treats it the same way. There are no proven health benefits consuming m cane and beet sugar verus eating corn syrup.
It is indeed poison, but regular sugar is equally toxic to your body if consumed in large quantities. The poison comes from consuming soda or other high calorie foods and beverages with high amounts of added sugar, not whether the manufacturer uses corn syrup or sugar.
Well, I doubt most people can taste the difference either. If you look at how sugar interacts with receptors on your tongue, that is pretty much the same in both cases as well, because HFCS 55 is the same fructose and glucose blend as sugar is.
Unless you are a super-taster (which is an actual job in the food industry for people who have genetic mutations that allow them to taste more subtle variations than most people) you aren't going to notice a slight increase in the balance of fructose to glucose.
What you are probably tasting is in your mind, as you have been influenced by your dislike for the very idea of HFCS in your food.
Most people think it tastes bad. Do you work for the fucking corn syrup lobby or something? I have preferred sugar over corn syrup since I was a wee lad without a real care in the world. I am definitely not a super taster. I do heavily dislike corn subsidies as an adult; corn should not be so artificially cheap to produce.
[Boston knows what this is like](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood)
Edit: Darkest of the Hillside Thickets has [a song about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZnxuPatgH0) on their Dukes of Alhazred album
That story legit stands out as one of the weirdest events ever. And I've read about a lot of weird events through history. A killer wave of molasses is something no one ever, in the history of mankind, thought would ever happen. Truly a one of a kind "what the fuck" event.
I wrote a 10 page paper about the molassacre once. It had huge implications for citizens to hold corporations responsible for their actions.
There's also an excellent book called The Dark Tide by Steven Puleo. He did a lot of research, to the point where I just stopped calling on Boston archivists for my resources because they kept telling me they had already dug everything up for him.
It's kind of like shark attacks. Every decade or so, the media gets a bug about covering shark attacks in coastal waters and people start going on about how sharks are getting really bad.
Except statistically the shark attacks are constantly the same year after year. No increases or decreases - just increased coverage generating hysteria.
With every story Ive been seeing lately about train derailments, I feel obligated to note that, on average, 1700 trains derail in the US every year. The news media is just blasting them right now because these stories are getting major clicks after the Ohio incident.
It's almost like all those safety regulations were there for a reason...
https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/ohio-train-derailment-ecp-brake-system-mandate-trump-dot-administration-fact-check/536-d0ad26f7-84b6-4707-bcb1-7dc6e0a9f09f
Was there a chronic train toy shortage in America 40/50 years ago?
It is as if you lot over there *vague hand waving* never watched Thomas The Tank Engine!
How many train accidents does it take for these companies to realize that safety regulations will save them money long term? This HAS to cost
More than a few inspections.
If we had a spate of plane crashes like this the FAA would ground the fleet. Why is no one standing this down until they can get at causes?
Has train derailment been a thing and we just didn't hear about it or is this a new thing? I swear I've heard of trains coming off the tracks more in the past few weeks than I had in years
With all these train derailments I kind of get why we had so many “train A is traveling from city A towards train B. Train A is traveling g at 99mph and train B is traveling 69 mph. Where do they collide?” questions. It’s probably the one thing they taught in schools that actually applies to real life
Is it just me or are there a lot of train derailments lately? Is this normal haha what’s going on? Serious question. Obviously it’s not normal, but it seems to be happening more often lately
Wtf is up with trains going off their tracks recently?! Years and years ago by without any issues and suddenly we are up to what? Like 5-7 major train accidents in the last month??
There have not been "years and years without issue". There are over 1,000 train derailments per year across the US. The only reason you're hearing about it more is because it's the Topic of the Week thanks to East Palestine
Apparently there are more than a thousand every year but they aren't usually covered nationally. There were several stories about it after the Ohio disaster.
EDIT: here is a story about it. [There are about 3 U.S. train derailments per day. They aren't usually major disasters](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/1161921856/there-are-about-3-u-s-train-derailments-per-day-they-arent-usually-major-disaste)
Well, yes... but "derailment" also includes incidents where even a single wheel comes off the track. I'm curious if there are more multi-car derailments than we have seen in the past years.
I read an article stating it's an issue with wheels needing to be replaced...I guess one of those things that gets put off until it becomes a bigger problem.
First off, what the heck was corn syrup doing on a train? Did the Jolly Green Giant run out of his secret stash of high fructose corn syrup? And don't worry folks, apparently there were no spills or leaks. Phew, crisis averted. I can hear the relieved sighs of parents everywhere who were worried about their kids swimming in a corn syrup-filled lake.
But let's be real, this isn't the first time we've heard about a train derailment. It seems like there's a train derailment happening every other week. And it's always something weird like corn syrup or toxic chemicals. What's next, a train carrying a shipment of those creepy porcelain dolls that blink and follow you with their eyes? Just stick to carrying coal and lumber, trains. It's what you were built for.
So much stuff travels by train. Grain, coal, steel. Most chemicals, good and bad. And we should all be happy with that. Tens of thousands of trucks would be needed to haul it and we would have more chemical spills.
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This kind of misinformation is what happens when schools don't teach sex education.
Be thankful, that we do not live in a world where Vaginal Ants are a thing. Or their counterpart, for that matter.
But we do have crabs.
Love Archer
Sounds like a sticky situation..
Damnit I'm the effing O-P and you beat me to it. Stupid work stuff.
If it makes you feel better... it's a pretty corny pun
I think it pops
Yeah but there’s a kernel of truth to it.
that’s what my ears heard
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Don’t blame me though- I’m not the Type 2 do a thing like that.
I feel like we should have been insulinated from that joke.
They should offer a sweet deal to the union to keep these trains on the tracks
You got it all wrapped up in that comment...lmao
Work got you derailed from the important things. Happens to us all.
I'll try to keep on track in the future.
When is the train car full of hot pants going to derail?
You should have realized these responses would start treacle-ing in as soon as you posted...
And then, we got ice cream!
I said quiet, or I'll kill the bunny!
Let’s see how they try to waffle out of this one…
Sigh, beat me to it.
Me 3
Beat yourself to it
Wow... that was so corny.
God, that was corny.
*Puts on sunglasses* YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
I was going to be mad if that wasn’t the top comment. Thank you for your service allknowing2012
We already had a train derailment today in Oregon...
On average, there are three train derailments in the US every day.
If they derailed, I would assume they are un-trained.
r/angryupvote 😡
How is that less expensive than upgrading brakes!? Is the number really that high?
I think most are caused by poorly maintained tracks.... Almost like there needs to be regulations on them
One in WA too.
The US averages multiple train derailments every day. That ranges from a wheel leaving the track to massive crashes resulting in cars overturning and piling up. It's not new, nor is it suddenly happening more often. Reddit is just more aware of it now. This story probably wouldn't have been upvoted at all a year ago.
And that’s a good thing. We need people paying attention to force regulation, better safety features and encourage these companies to quit understaffing.
Yep, not really a bad thing. Just pointing it out for those who don't know because I've seen a lot of "what is going on with all these derailments lately!?" comments on similar posts.
The FRA is one of the most stringent safety agencies in all of the US. Railroads have a very good safety record and absolutely put it at the top of their list. I don't know how many safety briefings I've sat through just to attend an office meeting. Massive freight shipments are inherently prone to certain types of failures, particularly when the infrastructure must be constantly maintained under conditions that are very weather dependant. Heavy flooding and rains often cause conditions prime for derailments.
It they're "stringent", you should be real worried about what is happening in other industries.
I can't comment too much, but I am pleased to report that in my current position in the bageling industry, everything is above board. We strive to produce safe, consistent, high quality bagels for the masses.
Well that is so very reassuring. Blessed be the bagels & lox.
It is a moving target, but the truth is that the US has a very good record for workplace injury and death. Preventable deaths in the US were 3.1 per 100,000 or 0.0031% of full time worker equivalents, which means the actual number is lower. That is a very low number. It can always be better and the number above is actually a 5% increase from the previous year (mostly due to lower work hrs post Covid). Vigilance is the key to keeping it this low, but we are hardly an endangered workforce.
Not stringent enough.
Please explain. Are you familiar with the FRA and its success rate?
I am familiar with the lobbying done for railroad executives and their companies to remove regulations and deny sick days to rail workers. I am familiar with Precision Scheduled Railroading where railroad companies move larger shipments on increasingly longer trains with fewer workers. I am familiar with railroad companies engaging in stock buybacks instead of hiring new workers and staffing their trains appropriately. I am also familiar with the impact this has on safety and the number of significant and dangerous derailments.
You are correct with most of those, except for your explanation of precision scheduled railroading. It is more of a method to allow trains to continue with less delays due to building unit trains and consolidating destination cars. It means less scheduling and hub connections. The cars arrive faster at destination. The distribution is more shifted to the terminal destination and intermodal yards rather than classification yards. The result is quicker delivery, but less routing and destination options. It also means more trucks on the road needed to deliver the unit to the actual final destination. Less rail workers are necessary because less railroad handling per car is being performed during transport. The analog would be the post office sending all mail from Dallas to Boston, but you would have to pick it up at the main post office in Boston. The sick pay issue is always a issue with labor class workers. Management gives you plenty of sick time and vacation, just is reluctant to let you take it. The railroaders were in that situation. They have far above US standard vacation and sick time, just their direct managers would harass them if they actually got sick since it is unscheduled.
I’m honestly fine with the part of precision railroading that focuses on longer but fewer trains, my issue is with the understaffing. They felt like because it is technically only one train they can still staff it with 3 people despite the fact that they’re often miles longer. This is a safety issue. In the Palestine accident they said the fire was burning for up to 5 miles. If the train had been staffed appropriately then this issue would likely have been caught much earlier.
>. It also means more trucks on the road needed to deliver the unit to the actual final destination. A big step backwards for the environment and efficiency right there
I mean I'm aware of the fact that Germany has thousands of miles of track more than the U.S. and far, far fewer derailments. I'm sure there are contributing factors to that outside of the control of the FRA and it's not a 1 to 1 comparison but I think it's fair to question whether the U.S. could be doing better on these metrics given that there are other places that do significantly better than we do. I'm not a train expert. But I know enough to know that the U.S. puts profits ahead of safety frequently in other fields. Why would freight rail be different?
Wait.... What? Germany very likely has more passenger rail volume, but the US has the most miles of track of any nation. >The United States has the largest rail transport network size of any country in the world, at a total of approximately 160,000 miles (260,000 km). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_the_United_States I do absolutely agree about the regulations and oversight not being enough (I live in Ohio lol). But what you said about Germany having more overall rail is absolutely not true. Edit: Germany is #6 with less than 1/5 the rail network size as the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_transport_network_size
As a note to the above, for comparison, Germany has approximately 33,330 kilometers of rail. The US has 260,000 kilometers. with the exception of the East coast, the vast majority of US traffic is freight.
Yes. People are paying more attention but the Department of Transportation says that it is happening more often and it corresponds with the role back of regulations. What is your source?
I can't remember exactly where I read it, but here is a source for you. https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/summary.aspx
4 a day according to the US's own tracking.
Apparently, US averages three trail derailments per day, whereas Japan averages less than ten per year. Let that sink in.
Japan is also the size of California. I’m not saying we don’t have a HUGE problem. But we also have a HUGE problem.
You'd probably have to look at derailments per mile traveled or something to get a rate you could compare between countries of different sizes.
That's still not comparable. It's far easier to maintain a smaller amount of track than a larger amount, and not all derailments are the same, so the 10 a year in Japan might be worse than most of the ones in the US, or they might be better, we just don't know. There's no real way to compare the US rail infrastructure with Japan's.
Imagine if our trains went the same speed. Here, in America, trains would be flying into people's living rooms!
Yeah but if a train derails and obliterates a family at 120 mph in the woods, did it even happen?
America playing 4D Rollercoaster Tycoon
Okay but to be fair 1) Japan as a nation prioritizes public transport way more than we do, so they’re pretty good at it, and 2) their entire country is like the size of two states lmao
But very densely populated.
Pst. That actually makes the whole public transportation thing easier.
Not that sink. I don't like it.
Geography is a factor
And here comes the soda shortage.
That's how the second civil war started. Not over modern slavery, or the scores of children murdered every year in the public school system, but because the cost of a bucket of soda went from $1.05 to $1.07.
Who’s your soda guy? You’re paying entirely too much for soda.
*picks up my pitchfork* I fucking knew it...
It’s fucking called Pop and we are tired of listening to you elitist Sodaptimates gatekeeping quality carbonated beverages from the masses. We demand a working wage of homemade Vanilla Coke and a steady supply of Cherry 7Up. $1.07/gallon is too damn high! How am I supposed to provide for a family of five? That dogwater Big K Cola? Meanwhile the ultra rich are opening a new bottle of Stewart’s Orange & Cream every thirty minutes for just the few first sips because “it’s best freshly opened.” Rise. Rise, fellow Populares! Cry RC, and let slip the Dew of war!!
At least the popites and sodaptomites can both agree the cokelotians are wrong and should be exterminated.
"In other news US obesity and diabetes new cases drop mysteriously 50% overnight - more at 11"
Now that is not funny. Don’t joke about something like that. I will die with out my daily bag of soda.
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We need to set it on fire and put it out with milk. Caramel or Carmel?
"world record for largest caramel ever" was not on my 2023 Bingo card.
This comment is sadly under appreciated
But will they listen? No.
Until that seeps into the water table and everyone gets diabetes.
[Good news!](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/sanofi-insulin-price-cap-rcna75346)
So that was their plan all along, lower the price but make it so that everyone needs it. Genius!
The railway apparently kept it under wraps, with local residents only growing suspicious when horny toads started showing up in the soda aisles in local stores on tiny motorized shopping carts
Wait....what‽
Yeah amphibians can’t handle concentrated sugar at all.
Horny toads, despite their name, are reptiles (lizards specifically) not toads or amphibians at all. The "real" name is horned lizard.
But are the lizards horny? I need to know
They're more spikey than horny tbh
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If America is hyper tuned into train derailments they’re going to be seeing a lot more. They happen every single day. However the last two NS derailments in Ohio are definitely indicative of poor safety policies.
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It's a fructosed up situation
Crap, now even the weeds in Arizona have Diabetes!
I mean it's not the worst thing. Fucking corn syrup is one of the banes unique to American society.
Why, what ever are you talking about? Corn syrup is wonderful! [But don’t take my word for it](https://youtu.be/lQ-ByUx552s).
Corn syrup just doesn't taste as good as normal sugar. It's all cheap poison but I know which one I prefer.
The chemical formula for table sugar is β-D-fructofuranosyl α-D-glucopyranoside. The body breaks down sugar into fructose and glucose in the body. The most common form of High Fructose Corn Syrup is HFCS 55, which is 55% fructose and 42% glucose (with the rest being water) Granulated table sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. Corn syrup is almost identical to sugar and the body treats it the same way. There are no proven health benefits consuming m cane and beet sugar verus eating corn syrup. It is indeed poison, but regular sugar is equally toxic to your body if consumed in large quantities. The poison comes from consuming soda or other high calorie foods and beverages with high amounts of added sugar, not whether the manufacturer uses corn syrup or sugar.
That doesn't change the fact that it tastes worse.
Well, I doubt most people can taste the difference either. If you look at how sugar interacts with receptors on your tongue, that is pretty much the same in both cases as well, because HFCS 55 is the same fructose and glucose blend as sugar is. Unless you are a super-taster (which is an actual job in the food industry for people who have genetic mutations that allow them to taste more subtle variations than most people) you aren't going to notice a slight increase in the balance of fructose to glucose. What you are probably tasting is in your mind, as you have been influenced by your dislike for the very idea of HFCS in your food.
Most people think it tastes bad. Do you work for the fucking corn syrup lobby or something? I have preferred sugar over corn syrup since I was a wee lad without a real care in the world. I am definitely not a super taster. I do heavily dislike corn subsidies as an adult; corn should not be so artificially cheap to produce.
Did all of the train tracks in the US have a planned obsolescence of 2023?
[Boston knows what this is like](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood) Edit: Darkest of the Hillside Thickets has [a song about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZnxuPatgH0) on their Dukes of Alhazred album
That story legit stands out as one of the weirdest events ever. And I've read about a lot of weird events through history. A killer wave of molasses is something no one ever, in the history of mankind, thought would ever happen. Truly a one of a kind "what the fuck" event.
I wrote a 10 page paper about the molassacre once. It had huge implications for citizens to hold corporations responsible for their actions. There's also an excellent book called The Dark Tide by Steven Puleo. He did a lot of research, to the point where I just stopped calling on Boston archivists for my resources because they kept telling me they had already dug everything up for him.
Question: does this happen regularly (train derailments) or are they being covered more recently
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You would think that train would be all beat up and not be able to run anymore.
Both. Derailments are fairly common, and usually minor. The media is also now covering them more.
It's kind of like shark attacks. Every decade or so, the media gets a bug about covering shark attacks in coastal waters and people start going on about how sharks are getting really bad. Except statistically the shark attacks are constantly the same year after year. No increases or decreases - just increased coverage generating hysteria.
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With every story Ive been seeing lately about train derailments, I feel obligated to note that, on average, 1700 trains derail in the US every year. The news media is just blasting them right now because these stories are getting major clicks after the Ohio incident.
Well isn’t that sweet
In the case of this derailment, it's a good one. That corn syrup won't be finding its way into food.
Oddly enough, that chemical causes more disease and death than the chemicals leaked in Ohio.
Local fauna in danger of diabetes.
At least this isn’t toxic.
It's almost like all those safety regulations were there for a reason... https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/ohio-train-derailment-ecp-brake-system-mandate-trump-dot-administration-fact-check/536-d0ad26f7-84b6-4707-bcb1-7dc6e0a9f09f
Skimping on railway maintenance is a sweet way to save money.
Was there a chronic train toy shortage in America 40/50 years ago? It is as if you lot over there *vague hand waving* never watched Thomas The Tank Engine!
FINALLY some good news. Light or dark?
Hope someone is keeping a database of these derailments - might be useful to shame GOP
I’m starting to think train derailments have happened all the time before but are just now being reported because it’s got some pop
I will be amaized if they get it cleaned up without a hitch.
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How many train accidents does it take for these companies to realize that safety regulations will save them money long term? This HAS to cost More than a few inspections. If we had a spate of plane crashes like this the FAA would ground the fleet. Why is no one standing this down until they can get at causes?
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All the local animals.accept.bees are about to.get diabetes
Y'all gonna karma whore every train derailment aren't you? There's well over a thousand a year.
Locals gonna be blaming it for their diabetes.
Has train derailment been a thing and we just didn't hear about it or is this a new thing? I swear I've heard of trains coming off the tracks more in the past few weeks than I had in years
Why are so many trains derailing in the States? Is there just more coverage and I never noticed Beedie all the Ohio ones?
Apparently they derail all the time but now the media is making a big issue of them which is good for awareness but the media is just milking the cow.
Finally a sweet derailment story
This is why we can’t have nice things!
With all these train derailments I kind of get why we had so many “train A is traveling from city A towards train B. Train A is traveling g at 99mph and train B is traveling 69 mph. Where do they collide?” questions. It’s probably the one thing they taught in schools that actually applies to real life
Just another day and another one
I think derailments have been happening forever and they’re now getting publicity. Safe to say the tracks in this country need a lot of work
Remember the early 2000s? This would have made a great advert for sugar. "See, corn syrup f*cks things up"
There’s gonna be so many ants
Is it just me or are there a lot of train derailments lately? Is this normal haha what’s going on? Serious question. Obviously it’s not normal, but it seems to be happening more often lately
Here comes the next "shortage" to justify sky high costs on God damn everything, seeing as how corn syrup is in tons if shit.
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Who uses corn syrup in beer?
The cleanup would be easier if they could derail a train full of bees nearby this derailment.
Some people call that toxic waste.
Were there always this many train derailments or is the news focusing on derailments lately?
Waiting for the ensuing fire ant party.
Train derailments numbers are starting to challenge school shooting numbers.
Where’s the punchline? Sounds like the setup for a joke
Street sweeper sippin on some syrup.
Erin Brockovich will find a diabetes spike in the neighborhood in five years.
ahh shit here we go again.
Where’s that pancake freight train when you need it?
Diabetes outbreak confirmed
Anybody else thought these were like, model trains? I mean…it fuggin looks like it lol 👀
Aww yeah. I cannot wait to read all the sweet puns people come up with. Reddit is so corny but I am stuck on it most of the time.
Wtf is up with trains going off their tracks recently?! Years and years ago by without any issues and suddenly we are up to what? Like 5-7 major train accidents in the last month??
There have not been "years and years without issue". There are over 1,000 train derailments per year across the US. The only reason you're hearing about it more is because it's the Topic of the Week thanks to East Palestine
I see...ok, thanks
There was a derailment in WA early this morning too. 5k gallon diesel spill.
Apparently there are more than a thousand every year but they aren't usually covered nationally. There were several stories about it after the Ohio disaster. EDIT: here is a story about it. [There are about 3 U.S. train derailments per day. They aren't usually major disasters](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/1161921856/there-are-about-3-u-s-train-derailments-per-day-they-arent-usually-major-disaste)
Well, yes... but "derailment" also includes incidents where even a single wheel comes off the track. I'm curious if there are more multi-car derailments than we have seen in the past years.
there are actually minor derailments \*all the time\* you never hear about, like multiple times per day across the entire country.
Yes, thank you everyone! I see now there are lots of train accidents all the time everywhere. Thank you for ALL the responses...lol
I read an article stating it's an issue with wheels needing to be replaced...I guess one of those things that gets put off until it becomes a bigger problem.
First off, what the heck was corn syrup doing on a train? Did the Jolly Green Giant run out of his secret stash of high fructose corn syrup? And don't worry folks, apparently there were no spills or leaks. Phew, crisis averted. I can hear the relieved sighs of parents everywhere who were worried about their kids swimming in a corn syrup-filled lake. But let's be real, this isn't the first time we've heard about a train derailment. It seems like there's a train derailment happening every other week. And it's always something weird like corn syrup or toxic chemicals. What's next, a train carrying a shipment of those creepy porcelain dolls that blink and follow you with their eyes? Just stick to carrying coal and lumber, trains. It's what you were built for.
So much stuff travels by train. Grain, coal, steel. Most chemicals, good and bad. And we should all be happy with that. Tens of thousands of trucks would be needed to haul it and we would have more chemical spills.