Train derailment in Ohio and chemical release

[Cameramonkey]

Why not a cheap thermal sensor on each axle of each car, daisy chained together by the hitches and read directly in the engine without delay. An alert requires the train be stopped and walked with a thermal imaging device

Nope. Do you realize how much rolling stock there is in the country?

That is why they do them on the lines trackside. Less to buy, less to break, etc

 

[ditcherman]

Mandate the tripping of a heat sensor automatically triggers an emergency stop of the train with no human intervention or oversight. Either these systems work or they are not needed. No use setting on the fence and having systems that need a room full of humans to interpret, categorize, then send on to the decision makers to look at later this afternoon.

maybe states need to implement DOT type forced stops and inspections like each state has for semi trucks…

Why not a cheap thermal sensor on each axle of each car, daisy chained together by the hitches and read directly in the engine without delay. An alert requires the train be stopped and walked with a thermal imaging device

You guys should be forced to have the privilege of running equipment that has all this automation you speak of.
Talk about freight rates going up.
Great theories but actual implementation is lacking.

Look how many truck are on the side of the road compared to a few years ago. Pollution stuff stops working and the truck shuts down. Or pollution stuff doesn’t stop working but something thinks it did and truck shuts down.

Personally, I think it comes down to personal responsibility, a man honoring his word and doing his job to stop the train. I know that’s pie in the sky these days too though.

 

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[DoggyDaddy]

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7 months Joe. 7 ****ing months, and you haven't had time?? FJB

 

[Cameramonkey]

7 months Joe. 7 ****ing months, and you haven't had time?? FJB

Because he has spent over 43% of his time on vacation.

I wish my boss would let me run off to the beach and just pop in on meetings remotely and do my work periodically throughout my day.

If you arent sure how much that is, if that were you or I, it would be the equivalent of working only 3 days a week. (assuming M-F jobs)

 

[actaeon277]

I wouldn't mind him taking vacation all the time...
IF THINGS WERE WORKING.


I seem to remember Trump being attacked for vacations.
But it wasn't as much, and things were working.

 

[foszoe]

I guess I view presidential visits to disaster areas as a political bolstering move and a waste of tax payer dollars because what can they really do on site that they can't do remote?

Especially in the modern Era where workers are defying orders to return to the office because they are just as productive working remote.

 

[KG1]

7 months Joe. 7 ****ing months, and you haven't had time?? FJB

Joe says, "No Comment."

 

[KG1]

I guess I view presidential visits to disaster areas as a political bolstering move and a waste of tax payer dollars because what can they really do on site that they can't do remote?

Especially in the modern Era where workers are defying orders to return to the office because they are just as productive working remote.

There's some truth to that. If Biden went, he would probably just ramble on again about how he almost lost his prized "67 corvette and cat (oh and his wife) in an insignificant kitchen fire at his house years ago.

Just like he's done twice before. Once when he finally visited Maui and another when he went to examine the hurricane damage in Fla. recently.

 

[KG1]

As to the question of presidential visits to disaster areas. I agree that it's in part a political bolstering move but I suppose it cuts both ways if they don't because people expect them to go in support of their communities that have been decimated.

 

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Seeing that pic of him standing there shirtless just makes me wonder where Jeff Dunham sticks his hand.

 

[Cameramonkey]

As to the question of presidential visits to disaster areas. I agree that it's in part a political bolstering move but I suppose it cuts both ways if they don't because people expect them to go in support of their communities that have been decimated.

This. It shows you care when you take time out of your day and actually show up. Like when somebody dies and you go pay your respects instead of just sending flowers or making a donation from the comfort of your recliner. Does it do anything permanent like a donation? No. But it shows you care.

And he clearly doesnt care. Which is ironic because these blue collar working class communities are supposedly who votes for him. These are the people he pandered to in 2020 to get their votes.

 

[BugI02]

7 months Joe. 7 ****ing months, and you haven't had time?? FJB

Because he has spent over 43% of his time on vacation.

I wish my boss would let me run off to the beach and just pop in on meetings remotely and do my work periodically throughout my day.

If you arent sure how much that is, if that were you or I, it would be the equivalent of working only 3 days a week. (assuming M-F jobs)

IMO it isn't that. It's because they are little people in flyover country who didn't vote for him - and it wouldn't shock me if Norfolk - Southern was greasing his palm to avoid the worst parts of their responsibility

Even when it comes to people he does care somewhat about, notice that he won't move already appropriated money from other allocations to increase funding to FEMA, he's going to play politics and set up a vote with additional FEMA funding and likely additional unpalatable stuff in order to place Republicans in an awkward position while allowing FEMA's ability to help anyone to wither in the meantime

 

[BugI02]

If you arent sure how much that is, if that were you or I, it would be the equivalent of working only 3 days a week. (assuming M-F jobs)

Or equivalent to having 22 weeks of vacation per year

 

[smokingman]

Norfolk Southern to start compensating homeowners for Ohio derailment By Reuters

Norfolk Southern to start compensating homeowners for Ohio derailment

www.investing.com

 

[BugI02]

Norfolk Southern to start compensating homeowners for Ohio derailment By Reuters

Norfolk Southern to start compensating homeowners for Ohio derailment

www.investing.com

The supposition here is N-S has determined paying as few people as possible as little as possible to compensate them for lost value of their houses (after months of impersonal, hardball negotiation with legal firms, of course) will be cheaper than actually cleaning up all of the contamination

Think Pinto gas tanks

 

[Shadow01]

It said the government is pushing for better track maintenance. How about the government picking a maintenance company to maintain and take full responsibility for the track and have N-S write the check?

 

[KLB]

It said the government is pushing for better track maintenance. How about the government picking a maintenance company to maintain and take full responsibility for the track and have N-S write the check?

Because the government is so good at that kind of thing.

 

[Shadow01]

Because the government is so good at that kind of thing.

Don’t care about them being good at it.
it’s about teaching a life changing financial lesson to companies that choose to cut corners on safety.

 

[KLB]

Don’t care about them being good at it.
it’s about teaching a life changing financial lesson to companies that choose to cut corners on safety.

Which won't happen with your solution. That is just a way to incompetence and grift.