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2023 Ohio train derailment and aftermath - WE REQUIRE MORE PHOSGENE GAS
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/pol/ is going apeshit. Apparently a Railroad Worker decided to spill the tea. Norfolk Southern is owned by Blackrock and Vanguard. One of the major sticking points in the railroad strike earlier this year was a "new innovation" called "precision scheduling railroad". What that meant in practice was fewer workers, fewer safety checks, and greater profits. The Biden Administration apparently threatened the railroad workers with life in prison if they didn't get back to work, accepts the PSR "innovation" and like it.
I decided to look into this, and well, its all true.
Where railroads previously focused on moving trains, PSR shifts that focus to moving cars. So, instead of waiting for a long train to be built, trains are always moving and cars are picked up on schedule, regardless of train length. Velocity and train length are still important to railroads, but now, the focus on moving cars takes precedence.
What railroads found is that the focus on moving trains was actually slowing down the network overall and causing cars to sit for long periods of time in yards (a measurement railroaders call “dwell”) — and that’s inefficient for both railroads and their customers. And when overall rail network velocity slows, equipment does not cycle (return to its owner) as fast, meaning more unproductive cars are on the network. The result? Cars aren’t always available when needed, the network is congested and service isn’t as dependable.
Why is this important? Apparently the "dwell time" was so the Train Engineer and Railyard workers could manually inspect each car on the train to insure it was hooked up properly and working. Super inefficient!
Except apparently the issue that happened in New Palestine was that the Train Cars carrying the toxic materials malfunctioned. Something that would have been discovered had the Engineers had time to inspect at the yard before departure. Worse, the train itself tripped a heat sensor indicating one or several wheels were on fire, but were ordered to proceed as planned in the PSR schedule due to the fact things were moving so "efficiently", it would be unsafe to initiate an emergency stop on the line.
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I decided to look into this, and well, its all true.
Where railroads previously focused on moving trains, PSR shifts that focus to moving cars. So, instead of waiting for a long train to be built, trains are always moving and cars are picked up on schedule, regardless of train length. Velocity and train length are still important to railroads, but now, the focus on moving cars takes precedence.
What railroads found is that the focus on moving trains was actually slowing down the network overall and causing cars to sit for long periods of time in yards (a measurement railroaders call “dwell”) — and that’s inefficient for both railroads and their customers. And when overall rail network velocity slows, equipment does not cycle (return to its owner) as fast, meaning more unproductive cars are on the network. The result? Cars aren’t always available when needed, the network is congested and service isn’t as dependable.
Why is this important? Apparently the "dwell time" was so the Train Engineer and Railyard workers could manually inspect each car on the train to insure it was hooked up properly and working. Super inefficient!
Except apparently the issue that happened in New Palestine was that the Train Cars carrying the toxic materials malfunctioned. Something that would have been discovered had the Engineers had time to inspect at the yard before departure. Worse, the train itself tripped a heat sensor indicating one or several wheels were on fire, but were ordered to proceed as planned in the PSR schedule due to the fact things were moving so "efficiently", it would be unsafe to initiate an emergency stop on the line.
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People calling this a Chernobyl-level disaster is not an exaggeration holy fuck.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LPMisesCaucus/status/1625194978753277952
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I found info (not sure how accurate) that in USA in 2017 (or 201
was a change of law, and from that moment cargo cars with hazardous chemicals aren't recquired to have electronically controlled pneumatic brakes. And, subsuquent I read opinions that this incident will not bo so big if all cars have electronically controlled pneumatic brakes.Can You explain what I found, read and probably not understood properly?
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I am hardly an expert on railway operations.I found info (not sure how accurate) that in USA in 2017 (or 201
Can You explain what I found, read and probably not understood properly?
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This is all true but here is something helpful for people like me who can only digest condensed schizoposting./pol/ is going apeshit. Apparently a Railroad Worker decided to spill the tea. Norfolk Southern is owned by Blackrock and Vanguard. One of the major sticking points in the railroad strike earlier this year was a "new innovation" called "precision scheduling railroad". What that meant in practice was fewer workers, fewer safety checks, and greater profits. The Biden Administration apparently threatened the railroad workers with life in prison if they didn't get back to work, accepts the PSR "innovation" and like it.
I decided to look into this, and well, its all true.
Where railroads previously focused on moving trains, PSR shifts that focus to moving cars. So, instead of waiting for a long train to be built, trains are always moving and cars are picked up on schedule, regardless of train length. Velocity and train length are still important to railroads, but now, the focus on moving cars takes precedence.
What railroads found is that the focus on moving trains was actually slowing down the network overall and causing cars to sit for long periods of time in yards (a measurement railroaders call “dwell”) — and that’s inefficient for both railroads and their customers. And when overall rail network velocity slows, equipment does not cycle (return to its owner) as fast, meaning more unproductive cars are on the network. The result? Cars aren’t always available when needed, the network is congested and service isn’t as dependable.
Why is this important? Apparently the "dwell time" was so the Train Engineer and Railyard workers could manually inspect each car on the train to insure it was hooked up properly and working. Super inefficient!
Except apparently the issue that happened in New Palestine was that the Train Cars carrying the toxic materials malfunctioned. Something that would have been discovered had the Engineers had time to inspect at the yard before departure. Worse, the train itself tripped a heat sensor indicating one or several wheels were on fire, but were ordered to proceed as planned in the PSR schedule due to the fact things were moving so "efficiently", it would be unsafe to initiate an emergency stop on the line.
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This is clearly less important than being informed on the latest UFOs the Air Force is shooting at.
But seriously, it's incredible that this ties right back into Congress voting to ban railroad workers from striking and then go figure, a major rail disaster happens. Gotta love how the enviro-nuts are nowhere to be seen. Apparently we must ban fertilizer because it poisons groundwater and rivers, but a laundry list of chemicals including literal chemical warfare agents are okay to dump into the groundwater. Oh wait, that's because acid rain was so 70s, nobody cares about acid rain anymore when we have to kill every cow on the planet or else we'll be dead by 2030.
But seriously, it's incredible that this ties right back into Congress voting to ban railroad workers from striking and then go figure, a major rail disaster happens. Gotta love how the enviro-nuts are nowhere to be seen. Apparently we must ban fertilizer because it poisons groundwater and rivers, but a laundry list of chemicals including literal chemical warfare agents are okay to dump into the groundwater. Oh wait, that's because acid rain was so 70s, nobody cares about acid rain anymore when we have to kill every cow on the planet or else we'll be dead by 2030.
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I hope Ohio isn't planning to grow any food this year. Something tells me the Soil PH for the entire state and a large swath of New York and Pennsylvania is not going to be conducive to anything not a potato or a peanut.
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There should be a rating denominating extreme anger.
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Why are you running damage control for the BWL?
EDIT: While everyone was pointing fingers at glow-in-the-dark african americans gainfully employed by the United States Government, Darya Dugina has been leading a small coaltion of Indigo Children, known coloquially in the "Very Real State of North Carolina" as the Match-Striker Girls. First the Power Stations, then Egg Places and now Trains. It is my belief that these vengeful, multi-cultural girls possess psychic powers and are (rightfully) taking revenge on the United States for rendering them infertile and freezing them in another dimension in the 1920s.
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Jesus Christ!/pol/ is going apeshit. Apparently a Railroad Worker decided to spill the tea. Norfolk Southern is owned by Blackrock and Vanguard. One of the major sticking points in the railroad strike earlier this year was a "new innovation" called "precision scheduling railroad". What that meant in practice was fewer workers, fewer safety checks, and greater profits. The Biden Administration apparently threatened the railroad workers with life in prison if they didn't get back to work, accepts the PSR "innovation" and like it.
I decided to look into this, and well, its all true.
Where railroads previously focused on moving trains, PSR shifts that focus to moving cars. So, instead of waiting for a long train to be built, trains are always moving and cars are picked up on schedule, regardless of train length. Velocity and train length are still important to railroads, but now, the focus on moving cars takes precedence.
What railroads found is that the focus on moving trains was actually slowing down the network overall and causing cars to sit for long periods of time in yards (a measurement railroaders call “dwell”) — and that’s inefficient for both railroads and their customers. And when overall rail network velocity slows, equipment does not cycle (return to its owner) as fast, meaning more unproductive cars are on the network. The result? Cars aren’t always available when needed, the network is congested and service isn’t as dependable.
Why is this important? Apparently the "dwell time" was so the Train Engineer and Railyard workers could manually inspect each car on the train to insure it was hooked up properly and working. Super inefficient!
Except apparently the issue that happened in New Palestine was that the Train Cars carrying the toxic materials malfunctioned. Something that would have been discovered had the Engineers had time to inspect at the yard before departure. Worse, the train itself tripped a heat sensor indicating one or several wheels were on fire, but were ordered to proceed as planned in the PSR schedule due to the fact things were moving so "efficiently", it would be unsafe to initiate an emergency stop on the line.
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To think that people who support the Mick Lynch imposed RMT/ASLEF strikes in the UK view Sunak and co. as draconian.
LIFE IN PRISON? That is disgusting.
I'd not be surprised if Vanguard were also pushing for worse terms here in the UK which has a decent (not perfect but far from terrible) operating record with the last serious incident being in 2020 at Stonehaven near Aberdeen.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette received surveillance video from a security camera that showed sparks/flames under one of the cars 20 miles before the derailment. NTSB will release the preliminary report in 30 days.
The crew also received an alarm from a wayside detector although its not clear whether it was the one near the surveillance video or the one near East Palestine.
The crew also received an alarm from a wayside detector although its not clear whether it was the one near the surveillance video or the one near East Palestine.
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One million dead glow niggers would not be enough.
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Even if you had shit like this in every county in Ohio and Pennsylvania, it would still be plenty productive for farming just like it was in the 70s when acid rain was at its worst. One single environmental disaster is a drop in the bucket long-term in terms of acid rain. At worst it might help kill a forest via plant disease/insect infestation somewhere in the Pennsylvania mountains where most of these fumes blew (since mountains receive more rain).
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If something like this doesnt wake people up from their pfizer/fluoride induced coma nothing will, this is fucking egregious.
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Jesus Christ, I knew these fuckers want us dead and everything, but I never thought they'd decimate farmland that they also need, to do it.
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This really highlights the current problems with the US political system. The only party at least somewhat sane on social issues and everything else, is fully invested in selling out our country and lives for the sake of elites and big business even greater profits. "Small government" is an ideology that at least in these types of contexts (infrastructure, regulation and safety) needs to DIE quickly! We are starting to thankfully see it. Even younger conservatives are starting to call out establishment political elite orthodoxy on this shit and it couldn't come soon enough! Yes, the government should stay mostly out of the way of everyone for small scale things and potential threats, but crap like this, with the potential to effect so many.. large industry in general... making their own rules.... Fuck that noise!
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/pol/ is going apeshit. Apparently a Railroad Worker decided to spill the tea. Norfolk Southern is owned by Blackrock and Vanguard. One of the major sticking points in the railroad strike earlier this year was a "new innovation" called "precision scheduling railroad". What that meant in practice was fewer workers, fewer safety checks, and greater profits. The Biden Administration apparently threatened the railroad workers with life in prison if they didn't get back to work, accepts the PSR "innovation" and like it.
I decided to look into this, and well, its all true.
Where railroads previously focused on moving trains, PSR shifts that focus to moving cars. So, instead of waiting for a long train to be built, trains are always moving and cars are picked up on schedule, regardless of train length. Velocity and train length are still important to railroads, but now, the focus on moving cars takes precedence.
What railroads found is that the focus on moving trains was actually slowing down the network overall and causing cars to sit for long periods of time in yards (a measurement railroaders call “dwell”) — and that’s inefficient for both railroads and their customers. And when overall rail network velocity slows, equipment does not cycle (return to its owner) as fast, meaning more unproductive cars are on the network. The result? Cars aren’t always available when needed, the network is congested and service isn’t as dependable.
Why is this important? Apparently the "dwell time" was so the Train Engineer and Railyard workers could manually inspect each car on the train to insure it was hooked up properly and working. Super inefficient!
Except apparently the issue that happened in New Palestine was that the Train Cars carrying the toxic materials malfunctioned. Something that would have been discovered had the Engineers had time to inspect at the yard before departure. Worse, the train itself tripped a heat sensor indicating one or several wheels were on fire, but were ordered to proceed as planned in the PSR schedule due to the fact things were moving so "efficiently", it would be unsafe to initiate an emergency stop on the line.
/pol/ - /ateg/ - AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT GENERAL ~ MADE IT TO TUCKER EDI…
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This seems to be the truth here. The Railroad Lobby pushed something way too dangerous and finnicky, had their paid lobbyists just crush any opposition by force and now they are desperatly deflecting from it. Except it isn't working because people noticed and no matter how much they scream about "muh UFO gais look at da balloon!!!" people are not being distracted. Local Ohio news already broke the hold and is reporting on the story, I wonder how long it will take for the rest of the USA to catch up.