NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on East Palestine Toxic Train Derailment

https://www.c-span.org/video/?526265-1/ntsb-releases-preliminary-report-east-palestine-toxic-train-derailment
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ICuTDIt71-c

'We call things accidents. There is no #accident, says #NationalTransportationSafetyBoardChair #JenniferHomendy

Consumer and #environment advocate #ErinBrockovich is holding a #rally in EastPalestine, Ohio on Friday, 02/24, following the February #train #derailment. #Brockovich says the area will need decades of #clean-up and #monitoring.

#eastpalestine #ohio #hazardous #toxic #train #derailment #preventable #preliminary-report #ntsb #wheel-bearing #axle #overheating

NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on East Palestine Toxic Train Derailment

"This was 100% preventable. We call things accidents. There is no accident. Every single event that we investigate is preventable," said National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy about the train carrying hazardous...

A Train Carrying Coal has Derailed in Nebraska

https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1628073534122770432
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/21/nebraska-train-derailment-union-pacific-train-coal/11313432002/

These #companies have #cut thousands of #jobs while raking in #billions, and #lobbying for #deregulation. There's no conspiracy, other than deadly #corporate #greed.

#gothenburg #nebraska #coal #train #derailment #union-pacific

American Capitalism’s growing Dysfunction is what makes it so Vulnerable to Revolt

#RainerShea

https://rainershea.substack.com/p/american-capitalisms-growing-dysfunction

The aging of the country’s #infrastructure as funds go to #waging-endless-wars, the #selling-of-utilities to #predatory #companies, the #dismantling of #social-services, the #deregulation and #consolidation of the #banks, the #exacerbation-of-inflation by a #proxy-war; they’ve all rendered the #people without the #resources to be able to absorb #emergencies.

#american #capitalism #dysfunction #vulnerable #revolt #profit #ohio #health #safety #labor #corporate #crime #chemicals #train #crash #derailment #fema #era #contaminated #water #pollution #us #environmental #catastrophe

American capitalism’s growing dysfunction is what makes it so vulnerable to revolt

The systemic breakdown that our socioeconomic system is creating has the potential to do more than worsen the suffering of the people. Capitalism has survived so long because it’s been able to exploit the crises it creates, to profit off of wars,...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0JiqBNqH3rA

The #train #derailment and subsequent #chemical #explosion in East #Palestine, #Ohio is being described by many as “devastating” and potentially “America’s #Chernobyl.” Mind you, not by Norfolk Southern, the rail company responsible or the Biden administration, which took a full ten days before making even a statement about the catastrophe. But a #catastrophe it appears to be nevertheless, and in 21st century America it’s likely that the powerful interests responsible won’t be held accountable while the poorer victims will bear the brunt. Guest host Aaron Maté and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Norfolk Souther’s offer of $25,000 as compensation for the people of East Palestine, which amounts to roughly $5 per resident.

Norfolk Southern helped convince government officials to repeal brake rules — and corporate lobbyists watered down hazmat safety regs.

Full article in HERE <-

100 Mile radius of East Palestine, Ohio where many wild life are being found dead due to train derailment carrying toxic chemicals.

#toxic #train #derailment #arrest #journos

Amtrak Derailment: At Least 50 Hurt in Montana, Official Says

#railroadaccidentsandsafety #amtrak #montana #derailment #trafficaccidentsandsafety #railroads #rescues #joplinmontana #news

At Least 3 Killed and 50 Hurt in Amtrak Derailment in Montana, Officials Say

The derailment, involving eight cars of the Empire Builder train, happened near Joplin, Mont., on Saturday afternoon.

Back in November 2018 there was a big derailment in the North West of Western Australia when one of BHP's iron ore trains ran away on their private track. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has just released their preliminary report. I work for the company that supplies the Train Control System which is the system that controls and monitors the railway / railroad infrastructure not the system the controls the locomotives so we a completely out of the picture for this. The lead locomotive was named after a BHP employee we have frequent dealings with. That locomotive was involved with the heaviest train run on BHP tracks and now also the fastest train on BHP tracks. Unfortunately it was destroyed in the derailment and the nameplate was too mangled to be salvageable. The weight of the train was 42,500 tonnes which is up around the weight of a largish WWII battleship and at 144 kilometres per hour the kinetic energy at the time of the crash was 68,000 Mega Joules which is about 16 tons of TNT equivalent. Bang!
#rail #crash #derailment