There wasn't enough time from the hotbox alarm until the derailment for the braking difference between ecp and traditional brakes to have a major reduction in speed.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11754479/Transportation-Secretary-Pete-Buttigieg-blames-TRUMP-administration-hampering-rail-safety.html

Though the Trump administration did roll back a regulation requiring modern braking systems on some trains, the Obama administration had already hollowed out that rule so much so that the modern braking systems would not have been required on the train that derailed in East Palestine.

The 2015 Obama-era rule required trains carrying crude oil and some other chemicals to use electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes but left out many other hazardous chemicals after industry pressure.

Then in 2017 Trump's Transportation Department under Sec. Elaine Chao rolled back the ECP brake rule even further.


Watch Liarwanna484 ignore the bolded and go on a rant blaming Trump. And Gov. DeWine, now that he's discovered the gov is an R. I observe that he likes to use the phrase "George Bush's EPA" or "Trump's EPA" but never writes "Obama's EPA" or "Clinton's EPA" or "Biden's EPA." Such a dishonest poli hack.