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  1. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    And you are making the mistake of thinking that having functional and smooth rail is optional for our current level of civilization, and seem to forget how horribly the rail companies treat their operators due to the working conditions. The Corp of Engineers would be more humane bosses to the...
  2. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    See, I had never heard about that. It's something that could allow the corporate side's corruption to be rooted out while the Corp of Engineers acted as at least a caretaker of the rail industry/infrastructure while it was done. Rail is so fucked right now only a full reset is truly going to...
  3. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    See, I get the doubt about gov agencies, but the Corp of Engineers is one of the few relatively apolitical, still competent, and necessarily-equipped agencies to handle a nationalized rail-network. Also, they wouldn't put Marine's on the trains, those are needed on Amphibs in the South China...
  4. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Eh, @Sailor.X specifically said to put Rail under the Army Corp of Engineers, not just some random bureaucrats in DC. The is a very significant difference between just another group of political appointees running the nationalized rail network, and handing it all over to the ACE; one get's you...
  5. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    https://www.cleveland19.com/2023/03/04/new-level-fear-makeshift-dam-is-breached-east-palestine/ So heavy rains have caused one of the manmade, makeshift dams, used for contamination containment near the wreck site, to breach, and now contaminated water is spreading into the ground.
  6. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Another train carrying hazmat material has derailed on a Norfolk Southern Line in Ohio. Edit: Video of the derailment: Edit 2: Now NS is claiming the train did not have any hazmat aboard:
  7. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Texas A&M findings directly contradicting the initial gov findings about the hazards now present around the wreck site. "The analysis by Texas A&M University seems to contradict statements by state and federal regulators that air near the crash site is completely safe, despite residents...
  8. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ntsb-set-release-preliminary-report-ohio-train-derailment-rcna71772? Main culprit for the crash is now a very, very overheated bearing on one of the cars.
  9. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Bus factor is a bitch, that is true. It's the reason NASA didn't let the parachute packers for the Apollo program all travel in the same car together. Agency experts and public official should not have multiple of their expert riding in the same aircraft, not matter how 'safe' the aircraft or...
  10. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Edit: Well that's not sus at all.
  11. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Ok, how about a compromise; Corp of Engineers acts as auditors of the rail lines and the regulatory body overseeing them, instead of the EPA, TSA, or DoT? Use the ACE guys to figure out what regs are necessary for safety and steady, reliable commerce, and what is bureaucratic bloat. Truly...
  12. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Look, I'm not sure anything short of nationalizing large amounts of the rail infrastructure, and putting it directly under the Corp Of Engineers ability to order work on at will, will unfuck the US rail network as is. It's just that bad now.
  13. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    It sure seems like it; I think it's because the average Euro uses trains a lot more than the average person in the US. Sure problems exist, however alternative routes and companies exist as well in quantity in Europe; not some much in the US. Here we have Amtrak and freight rail, and that's...
  14. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Look, I wish I had the answers for why US rail operations are such a clusterfuck, but the plain fact is the US rail system and mindset around rail transport is vastly different from Europe, and you guys tend to put more...effort and thought into long term rail longevity than we do. Also...
  15. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Rail companies and their infrastructure double as national defense assets; they aren't going anywhere, no matter how badly run or managed they are. Best we can hope for is the situation gets bad enough the DoD bitch-slaps the rail companies for compromising national defense readiness with their...
  16. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Because unlike aircraft and ships, trains are much more fixed to specific infrastructure, which is owned by a decreasing number of companies, and new rail lines can take decades to get approved, never mind built. And that's before you get to the overworked, underpaid, and nearly wage-slave...
  17. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    The problem is, the nastiest stuff is heavier than air, and the lingering effects of...well, lets not mince words here, I think the phosgene gas exposure (and exposure of other bits of nastiness) was a lot wider and lot more severe than the railroad, gov, or media want known. Particularly with...
  18. Bacle

    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    Why would NOAA shutdown a site tracking the particulates from the plume?
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