Major freight railroads are rushing railcar inspections, reinforcing known safety concerns raised by unions for years, but at a House hearing Tuesday they'll...
Major freight railroads are rushing railcar inspections, reinforcing known safety concerns raised by unions for years, but at a House hearing Tuesday they'll present new evidence from federal inspectors that railcar checks are routinely less than two minutes per car.and collectively cut roughly one-third of all their workers.
And even though most derailments don't cause anything like the massive black plume of smoke and lingering health worries that followed the East Palestine derailment — because many of them happen at slow speeds without spilling toxic chemicals — Bose said smaller derailments shouldn't be dismissed as the railroad equivalent of a fender-bender because they can still be deadly.
Railroads also argue that new technology they are investing in can help supplement the visual inspections that workers do and spot problems while trains are moving down the tracks. But the Chair of the NTSB Jennifer Homendy suggested that Congress should accelerate its phasing out of the older DOT-111 tank cars that are prone to rupturing in a derailment and then look at addressing the more than 200 other outstanding recommendations her agency has “repeated and repeated and repeated with zero action by the railroads and by some regulators.
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