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re: Another train derailment
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:08 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:08 am to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:
people will click on a train derailment video/article now. that is all
So not simply due to the existence of the internet, cool.
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Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:09 am to TigerBlood62
quote:I'm old enough to remember a bunch of people on here saying there would be massive food shortages this winter
I'm sure you will be back here to eat your crow when our food supply dries up and you aren't prepared because you wanted to mock people instead of pulling your head out of your arse.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:09 am to LNCHBOX
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I did, which is why I asked why the internet existing is a valid response to why these are now s news worthy. That very obviously isn't the answer.
Yeah, it's just a hot topic now since the big one last month. Fear gets viewers/clicks.
This morning, two people that I know whatch their scary news every morning were posting on my social media feed about how another train derailment just happened and wanting to know why this is happening so much.
This subject will go away soon as long as nothing major happens in the next month. Then off to the next fear porn subject.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:11 am to LeTurdTheFerg
We had one last year in Paulina (St James Parish) that spilled hydrochloric acid and the town had to be evacuated for about a day. No one gave a shite outside of that town and it might of been on the OT for a short blurb of a thread if that
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:11 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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I'm old enough to remember a bunch of people on here saying there would be massive food shortages this winter
So you believe the massive increase in food costs, bare shelves, and total lack of certain items/products is due to our surplus of food? Got it.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:14 am to TigerBlood62
quote:started long before this winter
So you believe the massive increase in food costs,
quote:where is this happening?
bare shelves, and total lack of certain items/products is
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:14 am to TigerBlood62
The Federal Railroad Administration requires a derailment be reported if it causes more than $12,000 of damage to the track or equipment, said Allan Zarembski, director of the University of Delaware’s Railway Engineering and Safety Program.
“It does not take a lot to generate $12,000 worth of damage to a locomotive or to a piece of track or even to a freight car,” he said. That $12,000 threshold equates to “a couple of hundred bucks of damage to your car.”
Many reported derailments happen in yards, which is where trains are assembled before they start their planned routes, Zarembski said.
“They’re the fender-benders of the railroad world,” he said. Yard derailments are typically low-speed and low-energy derailments that cause somewhere between $10,000 and $30,000 in damage.
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“It does not take a lot to generate $12,000 worth of damage to a locomotive or to a piece of track or even to a freight car,” he said. That $12,000 threshold equates to “a couple of hundred bucks of damage to your car.”
Many reported derailments happen in yards, which is where trains are assembled before they start their planned routes, Zarembski said.
“They’re the fender-benders of the railroad world,” he said. Yard derailments are typically low-speed and low-energy derailments that cause somewhere between $10,000 and $30,000 in damage.
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This post was edited on 3/27/23 at 11:18 am
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:18 am to Cosmo
quote:Fixed it for you
These are very common in the US.
People need to understand, while train derailments might be “common” in the US (we average 1700 a year), they unequivocally are not near as common globally. For example, the entire EU had only 73 derailments in 2019. 73. To our 1700.
This building narrative that there’s just nothing we can do about derailments and that they were always around so we just have to accept the consequences of them is nonsense. Complete and utter nonsense. This is a result of the specific system of incentives we have put into place for the benefit of the rail bosses. Not an inevitable consequence of the technology itself. Buttigieg needs to get off his lazy, self-serving arse and actually do the job of transportation secretary to bring badly needed reform this industry.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:18 am to Cosmo
quote:
These are very common
BINGO!
For a number of years I worked for a company that specialized in cleanup of train derailments - this was their primary source of income.
Train Derailment frequency hasn't increased recently - for whatever reason ever since the massive derailment in Ohio it has turned into National News when a significant one happens.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:18 am to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:
where is this happening?
Do you live under a rock?
Its been happening all over the country for the better part of two years.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:18 am to TigerBlood62
quote:
I'm sure you will be back here to eat your crow when our food supply dries up
LOL
Yeah we were supposed to run out of food at the stores a year ago.
Then it was our wheat supply that only had 10 weeks left.
After that, the diesel in the east coast only had a day or two of supply left and truck drivers were about to be stranded and not able to make deliveries.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:18 am to Cosmo
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:20 am to TigerBlood62
quote:for food? lol no it hasn't
Its been happening all over the country for the better part of two years.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:21 am to yaboidarrell
They seem pretty steady after a big NAFTA jump in the 90s.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:21 am to notiger1997
quote:
LOL
Yeah we were supposed to run out of food at the stores a year ago.
Then it was our wheat supply that only had 10 weeks left.
I never said either of those things but continue to mock all you want. There will be a food crisis in this country. I am prepared; the "smart" people in this thread are not.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:22 am to notiger1997
quote:
Yeah we were supposed to run out of food at the stores a year ago.
Then it was our wheat supply that only had 10 weeks left.
After that, the diesel in the east coast only had a day or two of supply left and truck drivers were about to be stranded and not able to make deliveries.
Bro it's real this time please listen to me bro. the shortages are coming
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:24 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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Bro it's real this time please listen to me bro. the shortages are coming
Idgaf if you listen to me or not. The writing is all over the walls however. It's on you if you want to downplay or ignore the signs.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:26 am to TigerBlood62
quote:
sabotaging food factories,
Are you saying that this isn't happening?
The volume of incidences involving our food supply goes well beyond coincidence.
Whats the biggest incident to date?
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:29 am to funnystuff
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Buttigieg needs to get off his lazy, self-serving arse and actually do the job of transportation secretary to bring badly needed reform this industry.
The hundreds of billions sent to Ukraine could have improved our rail infrastructure a good bit
Posted on 3/27/23 at 11:30 am to TigerBlood62
quote:yeah, hysterical women's facebook walls
The writing is all over the walls however.
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