(Source: Trains Magazine, April 7, 2023)
All the positive freight railroad safety statistics in the world — like more than 99.9% of hazardous materials shipments arriving without incident — can’t overcome that image of a towering column of black smoke rising from East Palestine, Ohio. Politicians see railroads as modern day robber barons who oppose safety regulations. All they care about is profits, and the public be damned. The railroads reinforced this view by continuing to push for taking conductors out of the locomotive cab at a time when safety is under the microscope.
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