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Re: Prior detector failure? Video shows car sparking & flaming before it passed the Salem detector 20 miles east of the derailment
Author: ron
Date: 02-17-2023 - 09:55
BOB2 Wrote:
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> My point was more about the lack of "eyes" on the
> "look out" for these sort of things, to prevent
> and/or detect them. And relying almost totally on
> what appears to be automated detection. And, that
> based on the location of detectors and of camera
> views of the overheated truck/wheel/axle/bearing,
> may have failed to "detect" or "prevent" this
> accident.
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> The tank cars failing to properly vent is another
> thing they will be looking at.
The lack of eyes was my original point as well. Hyball the rollby. I assume there where no opposing train crews that would have seen the flaming wheels in the twenty miles before the derailment. How many carmen have been laid off at NS with the advent of PSR? Or more specifically at the originating yard where this train was made up?? Who manufactured the chemicals and was their advice on how best to deal with these chemicals when the tank cars ruptured followed?
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>
>
> My point was more about the lack of "eyes" on the
> "look out" for these sort of things, to prevent
> and/or detect them. And relying almost totally on
> what appears to be automated detection. And, that
> based on the location of detectors and of camera
> views of the overheated truck/wheel/axle/bearing,
> may have failed to "detect" or "prevent" this
> accident.
>
> The tank cars failing to properly vent is another
> thing they will be looking at.
The lack of eyes was my original point as well. Hyball the rollby. I assume there where no opposing train crews that would have seen the flaming wheels in the twenty miles before the derailment. How many carmen have been laid off at NS with the advent of PSR? Or more specifically at the originating yard where this train was made up?? Who manufactured the chemicals and was their advice on how best to deal with these chemicals when the tank cars ruptured followed?
