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It's the bearings, stupid, not the brakes
Author: Robert L. Dim Sum-walt
Date: 02-25-2023 - 00:37
I'ma M'gaga Wrote:
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>> [the] accusation that Mr. Trump’s administration scuttled an Obama-era rule for high-tech braking.
> Not an accusation, but a fact.
You obviously weren't able to grasp what Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. was expressing. He said that PTC was way overpriced and, for the amount of money that has been spent, is delivering very little. The money would have been better spent on wheel bearing failure detection devices installed on every car instead of relying on wayside detectors every twenty miles or so.
And which party are you channeling the majority of your anger toward? The Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, who have all been guilty of sucuumbing to the lure of bribery money in the form of "influence" contributions, or parties like Norfolk Southern and and Association of American Railroads, who are offering up the money to buy the influence?
>> The rule wouldn’t have applied to the East Palestine train anyway.
> Why is that?
Because the proposed law was only going to apply to trains made up exclusively of cars carrying hazardous commodities and, as we saw in East Palestine, NS was mixing hazardous cars into extremely long general merchandise freights. Also, you can have the best braking system in the world but the train is still going to pile up if a wheel bearing goes bad. NS could have gone a long way in preventing this wreck if they would have just run solid trains comprised exclusively of cars carrying hazardous commodities and reduced the speed of those train to, say, 25 MPH. I believe S.P. and other railroads used to run trains like that and called them KEY trains.
But, no, that would have required more crew starts and adversely affected transit times, so they chose the PSR path and now their tit is in a wringer --- big time. You would have thought the Graniteville, SC wreck would have taught them something.
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>> [the] accusation that Mr. Trump’s administration scuttled an Obama-era rule for high-tech braking.
> Not an accusation, but a fact.
You obviously weren't able to grasp what Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. was expressing. He said that PTC was way overpriced and, for the amount of money that has been spent, is delivering very little. The money would have been better spent on wheel bearing failure detection devices installed on every car instead of relying on wayside detectors every twenty miles or so.
And which party are you channeling the majority of your anger toward? The Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, who have all been guilty of sucuumbing to the lure of bribery money in the form of "influence" contributions, or parties like Norfolk Southern and and Association of American Railroads, who are offering up the money to buy the influence?
>> The rule wouldn’t have applied to the East Palestine train anyway.
> Why is that?
Because the proposed law was only going to apply to trains made up exclusively of cars carrying hazardous commodities and, as we saw in East Palestine, NS was mixing hazardous cars into extremely long general merchandise freights. Also, you can have the best braking system in the world but the train is still going to pile up if a wheel bearing goes bad. NS could have gone a long way in preventing this wreck if they would have just run solid trains comprised exclusively of cars carrying hazardous commodities and reduced the speed of those train to, say, 25 MPH. I believe S.P. and other railroads used to run trains like that and called them KEY trains.
But, no, that would have required more crew starts and adversely affected transit times, so they chose the PSR path and now their tit is in a wringer --- big time. You would have thought the Graniteville, SC wreck would have taught them something.
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