Entire Town Told to Evacuate After Kentucky Train Derailment

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A small town of approximately 200 people have been urged to evacuate on the eve of Thanksgiving after a train derailment that has caused concern due to a chemical spill.

In a statement Wednesday night, Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency following the multiple-car train derailment that occurred in Rockcastle County, in eastern Kentucky.

“Response efforts for the incident are ongoing, and local officials are encouraging those in the town of Livingston to evacuate,” the statement said.

“By issuing a state of emergency, we are ensuring that every state resource is available to help keep our families safe,” Gov. Beshear added. “Please stay clear of this area as state, local and CSX officials respond.”

Railroad operator CSX encouraged concerned residents to utilize accommodation the company secured in nearby Mt. Vernon. “In addition to the hotels, the CSX team is working with local restaurants to provide meals for affected residents. CSX is covering the cost for both,” a statement said.

The state’s Emergency Operations Center has also been activated to Level 4 while the state’s Energy and Environment Cabinet Emergency Response Team is also on scene.

CSX confirmed preliminary information indicated at least 16 cars were involved when the train derailed at 2:23 p.m.

Of those 16 cars, two molten sulphur cars had been breached and caught fire.

“When molten sulphur burns it is known to release sulphur dioxide,” CSX said, adding specialized equipment is being deployed to conduct air monitoring in the area.

“CSX is in close contact with the Rockcastle county emergency teams as they continue to assess the situation and we appreciate their swift response. We will work together with the local authorities to secure the area and safety is our top priority as we develop a recovery plan.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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You know who the Head of the department of transportation is right?
Booty judge since 2021, are you saying that he fudged the numbers of derailments and is hiding 100s of them to stay consistent with the trend? Unlikely but interesting if you prove it.
Is this also taking into account just how little we used our supply chains during Covid?
No it is raw number of derailments but from a quick glance rail volume remains consistent since 02.
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Corporations don't have anything to do with infrastructure last time I checked.
This reads like someone asked ChatGPT to write a Republican rambling.
The rails are owned by their respective companies. Its literal x feet wide by however long the specific track is of land owned by whatever rail company
Do we really know why any of these have been happening lately? Is it crumbling infrastructure? Is it operator incompetence? Is safety being overlooked in favor of profit? Is it intentional sabotage? Is it domestic terrorism? Is it glowie CIA shit? Is it the Russians? Israelis? Chinese?
The same group of assholes running companies like disney into the ground are doing the same things to the class 1 railroads.
I have a lot of friends/family in the rail industry, it’s not lookin good.

Also just wanted to say that derailments are not uncommon and happen dozens of times a month all over the country. Obviously they aren’t as dangerous as a chemical spill, but it isn’t uncommon.
 
Corporations don't have anything to do with infrastructure last time I checked.
This reads like someone asked ChatGPT to write a Republican rambling.
The companies own the rail lines, not the government. That's why NS had trains up and running two hours after the controlled release in EP, until the EPA stepped in and said "Dafuq, now?"

So whatever came from that last derailment is that just water under the bridge?
EP is recovering, still. NS is no longer paying temporary relocation fees, but it has been about 11 months, so that makes sense. They are, however, still working on cleanup. The main road into town just reopened about three weeks ago. Several companies along that toad got bought out completely. NS is paying anyone who can't get fair market value for their houses the difference. There is going to be a new park, with completely redone swimming pool. They're trying to make it right, it seems. I think they've spent about $1 billion, so far, in an attempt to make amends.
 
But I'm not specifically seeing where the diversity hire comes into this. Care to clarify for the rest of us?
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Corporations don't have anything to do with infrastructure last time I checked.
This reads like someone asked ChatGPT to write a Republican rambling.
Outside of Amtrak, the corporations themselves are responsible for their infrastructure.
 
I posted this in the last derailment thread, but having made the inadvisable choice of working for Norfolk Southern, it is certainly not malice causing these, as pointed out, rather rare accidents.

You are dealing with companies that are literally leeching off the remains of the big railroads that dropped dead in the 70's and 80's. The equipment is normally even older. And the big railroads cut all the maintenance people to the bone for cost saving. Shit broke all the time in my brief tenure there. Honestly, the fact more derailments don't happen is testament to the fact that we check for issues and notify because the lower employees know they'll be shithammered, and the company gets off scot free. CSX was the better run and managed railroad anyway, and it still fucking sucks.
 
Because the media found a new drum to beat and is bringing it to your attention. In actuality train derailment have decreased since the 70s.
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Booty judge since 2021, are you saying that he fudged the numbers of derailments and is hiding 100s of them to stay consistent with the trend? Unlikely but interesting if you prove it.

I guess the question isn't if there's an increase in derailments, since there seems to not be one. Question then is if there is an increase in these kind of dangerous derailments that cause major damage. Like if there are a thousand derailments happening per year since forever like in that graph, how many of those are some minor issue that's technically a "derailment" but doesn't really break anything and is quickly fixed? I assume a lot because if this is happening a thousand times a year most of them must be total nothingburgers.
 
I posted this in the last derailment thread, but having made the inadvisable choice of working for Norfolk Southern, it is certainly not malice causing these, as pointed out, rather rare accidents.

You are dealing with companies that are literally leeching off the remains of the big railroads that dropped dead in the 70's and 80's. The equipment is normally even older. And the big railroads cut all the maintenance people to the bone for cost saving. Shit broke all the time in my brief tenure there. Honestly, the fact more derailments don't happen is testament to the fact that we check for issues and notify because the lower employees know they'll be shithammered, and the company gets off scot free. CSX was the better run and managed railroad anyway, and it still fucking sucks.
How bad were the labor conditions really, consecutive days with no time off, long shifts, things like that? I heard the union reps on podcasts but wonder if any of that was exaggerated.
 
Corporations have to maximize profit, so repairing infrastructure and safety just aren't important these days. They're also allowed to mess with everyone's schedule to get the most hours out of them since workers can't go on strike since Democrats in Congress will just veto that. Oh, and they're totally down with diversity, the East Palestine disaster was caused by a black woman diversity hire.

We're fucked.
Oh, did she install the faulty bearing, or was she on the train? Neither? Fuck off.
 
How bad were the labor conditions really, consecutive days with no time off, long shifts, things like that? I heard the union reps on podcasts but wonder if any of that was exaggerated.
So it really depends where you are. Yard work is mostly scheduled, but pays less and is more actual work. Road trains, the real long freight ones people think of as “real trains”, are a different story. Better pay, and mostly sitting in the engine all day, but the schedules are awful. You get two hours notice before you have to be there, and that could be notice at 2 pm or 2 am. Any time, any day, you had people work Christmas and Thanksgiving despite being promised that wouldnt happen.

Now theres other factors, like how I got the worst scheduled jobs at the yard because seniority etc., but I’ll just say anything bad you’ve heard about working at the railroads is probably true.
 
Because the media found a new drum to beat and is bringing it to your attention. In actuality train derailment have decreased since the 70s.
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I think in the 70s and 80s there was lot of train lines cut and more freight was moved by trucks ? Maybe that overall keeps things down? Dunno just my two cents
Booty judge since 2021, are you saying that he fudged the numbers of derailments and is hiding 100s of them to stay consistent with the trend? Unlikely but interesting if you prove it.

No it is raw number of derailments but from a quick glance rail volume remains consistent since 02.
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You honestly believe that the faggot who runs transport who couldn't declog a fucking one port and force newson to cut the crap or cut short his maternity leave to fix a problem, in an administration who to this day with its dying breath claims that USA isn't in recession? Will tell the truth and not fudge the reports like everything else they fudged ? Vaccine safety, employment, immigration, inflation etc.
 
I assume a lot because if this is happening a thousand times a year most of them must be total nothingburgers.
You'd be right however it gets tricky to define what most people consider a major incident. If you go by accidents with hazardous materials like this and East Palestine are down 73% since 2000. However AAR did also mention while fatalities for workers and crossings are down trespasser and suicide deaths are up 4%. So there is a bit of a dark cloud there.
more freight was moved by trucks ? Maybe that overall keeps things down?
Possible but my other post touched on freight remaining relatively consistent for the 2000's and the downward trend holds in that time period. Therefore I'm inclined to believe the reduction is due to modernization and automation.
You honestly believe that the faggot
No but it would be an easy thing for industry insiders to disprove to score easy points on the Democrats. I also don't think him fudging reports to show rail is safer than it is helps his narrative of "Railways have been resistant to safety changes in the past". If anything he'd fudge up to help them pass good PR legislation.
 
My grandpa worked for L & N, which was snapped up by CSX, He was a flagger mostly, but once a week or so (memory foggy, it was a long time ago, mid to late 80s) he would ride the rails in this weird little truck to inspect them. Once in a GREAT while one of us grandkids would get to go with him, and I remember how cool it was. I remember riding through several tiny little towns, and some pretty rural areas, I don't remember riding through this town, but I do remember it was part of his route. as the 80s turned into the 90s he done this less and less. I don't know if that was because it stopped being part of his job or if they slowed down on doing it. No one probably gives a shit about any of this, but It just reminded me of him often being away during thanksgiviing and christmas doing the rail inspection, or railway fuckups. It happened a lot really, but it wasn't often because of some dangerous shit, it was mostly just getting shit sorted out so the trains could get back to running. Last bad derailment like this was up around west point, probably ten years ago.

here is a link to that.
 
Corporations have to maximize profit, so repairing infrastructure and safety just aren't important these days. They're also allowed to mess with everyone's schedule to get the most hours out of them since workers can't go on strike since Democrats in Congress will just veto that. Oh, and they're totally down with diversity, the East Palestine disaster was caused by a black woman diversity hire.

We're fucked.
Competency crisis seems to deepen when diversity ends up becoming the majority... I wonder why.
 
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