maarsen Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 12 hours ago, Fragile Bird said: Lol, I guess Trump was really pissed off that Biden went to the Ukraine! This’ll show him, this is real danger, eh? Any day now Trump will say he went to Palestine and brought peace to the region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 The NTSB's preliminary report indicates it may have been a wheel bearing failure on a railcar. Wayside thermal sensors detected a sharp increase in temperature in one of the bearings, which spiked to 253°F above ambient just before the derailment. Likely the bearing melted onto the axle, thus seizing the whole axle. It's been a while, 12 years to be exact, but my masters research project involved studying these bearings, and how interior wear may cause temperature spikes. What's disappointing reading the report is that the train themselves aren't equipped with thermal sensors to continuously monitor temperatures, instead of relying on the wayside HBD detectors that are only placed at certain locations. If I understand the nomenclature correctly, the first two sensors were 10 miles apart, and the third that detected that huge spiked was 20 miles from the second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThinkerX Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Corporations putting profit above safety and basic maintenance. 'We all knew it was going to happen': Railroad workers and unions say years of cost-cutting and safety pushback created the Ohio train disaster (msn.com) Rail workers and union leaders tell Fortune the Ohio derailment is only the latest extreme example of the kind of train accident constantly taking place across the U.S. And they say it’s the result of years of underinvestment, cost-cutting, and pushback against safety protocols in an industry controlled by just a few major companies. “The industry needs to be brought back under control,” Michael Paul Lindsey, a locomotive engineer and member of Railroad Workers United, a group representing workers from different unions, told Fortune. “We have problems with these massive long trains everywhere along the way, and companies are insistent that it has to work, even if we cut corners doing it.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IFR Posted February 26, 2023 Author Share Posted February 26, 2023 Estimated animal death toll from Ohio train derailment tops 43,700. This is updated from the previous estimate of 3,500. Also, residents near Ohio train derailment diagnosed with ailments associated with chemical exposure, including bronchitis. Quote Deborah Weese, a nurse practitioner at Quickmed Columbiana — one of closest urgent care clinics to East Palestine — said she has listed “exposure to potentially hazardous chemicals” as a possible cause of bronchitis or other ailments for patients who live or work near the crash site. Weese said she has been seeing about five to 10 people a day from the area who have symptoms consistent with chemical exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 These reichlicans don't know a thing about the government They are determined to destroy in favor of an all white, cis, male xtian dungheap. "The NTSB is not part of the Department of Transportation." https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-25-2023? Quote Yesterday, the chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, James Comer (R-KY), the chair of the Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, Pete Sessions (R-TX), the chair of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Glenn Grothman (R-WI), and the chair of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, Nancy Mace (R-SC), along with seventeen other extremist Republican members of Congress, sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. The letter complained that the federal government had not responded effectively to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. It referred to a preliminary report by the “D[epartment] O[f] T[ransportation]’s National Transportation Safety Board” and demanded Buttigieg provide “[a]ll documents and communications regarding NTSB’s progress on the cause of the derailment.” The NTSB is not part of the Department of Transportation. The NTSB is part of the government, but it is an independent agency, charged with investigating civil transportation accidents. It is also in charge of investigating the release of hazardous materials during transportation. Congress deliberately set it apart from the Department of Transportation to guarantee unbiased investigations. .... .... Either 21 Republican lawmakers charged with oversight of our government don’t know how the government works and didn’t care to find out, or they are deliberately misleading their loyalists. We are becoming accustomed to certain Republican lawmakers saying ridiculous things. Just two days ago, in a now-deleted tweet, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed that “6 billion” people have illegally crossed the border since President Biden took office. (There are slightly fewer than 8 billion people on earth.) But the letter these representatives wrote shows such a profound disinterest in how our government works that it suggests these representatives have no real interest in the job they were sent to Washington to do, and instead are weaponizing the government to mislead their followers into believing things that are not true. Buttiegieg responded: “I am alarmed to learn that the Chair of the House Oversight Committee thinks that the NTSB is part of our Department. NTSB is independent (and with good reason). Still, of course, we will fully review this and respond appropriately.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 jfc! Again, for crying out loud. In Ohio! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 10 hours ago, LongRider said: jfc! Again, for crying out loud. In Ohio! According to all the statements I've seen, there are no hazardous materials, at least not on the derailed cars. Everything is fine! Yup, fine, nothing to see here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 The freight on the East Palestine train wasn't considered hazardous waste either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.