Trump's visit to Ohio gives Biden opportunity to note that Trump killed safety rules (Político analysis)

[Oddball]

Oddball wants to dodge Trump's deregulation

That phony canard was debunked a week ago, dipschitt.

by pretending we are talking about Communist China and Mussolini.
LOL..

You brought it up.

 

[Independent thinker]

Trump's deregulatory actions are coming back to haunt him, as explained in this great Político analysis today:

Trump’s administration withdrew an Obama-era proposal to require faster brakes on trains carrying highly flammable materials, ended regular rail safety audits of railroads, and mothballed a pending rule requiring freight trains to have at least two crew members. He also placed a veteran of the chemical industry in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety office, where she made industry-friendly changes to how the agency studied health risks.

Trump’s visit to Ohio derailment gives Biden’s team some breathing room

His planned appearance near the scene of this month’s toxic derailment has Democrats pointing to his past efforts to roll back train and chemical regulations.

www.politico.com

LOL. While Biden and Pete Buttplug ignore the area.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Trump's deregulatory actions are coming back to haunt him, as explained in this great Político analysis today:

Trump’s administration withdrew an Obama-era proposal to require faster brakes on trains carrying highly flammable materials, ended regular rail safety audits of railroads, and mothballed a pending rule requiring freight trains to have at least two crew members. He also placed a veteran of the chemical industry in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety office, where she made industry-friendly changes to how the agency studied health risks.

Trump’s visit to Ohio derailment gives Biden’s team some breathing room

His planned appearance near the scene of this month’s toxic derailment has Democrats pointing to his past efforts to roll back train and chemical regulations.

www.politico.com

Still waiting for a single person to conclusively show that the rollback of these regulations resulted in this accident. Nobody has done so as far as I know, but it hasn't stopped you Non-Player Characters from parroting the same talking point over and over because a partisan hack will hack.

 

[Fueri]

Trump did it!

It's hilarious how willingly many dems guzzle that piss as often as necessary to make them forget they put an addle-brained moron in the White House. It's like booze laced with mescaline and they just can't get enough.

 

[Delldude]

And Trump isn’t alone.

This is consistent with Republicans’ reckless, irresponsible pursuit of meritless deregulation.

I guess they deregulated the southern border, too.

 

[Delldude]

Still waiting for a single person to conclusively show that the rollback of these regulations resulted in this accident. Nobody has done so as far as I know, but it hasn't stopped you Non-Player Characters from parroting the same talking point over and over because a partisan hack will hack.

From a previous linked post, the ECP was still a requirement on cars carrying toxic materials. NTSB pointed out the ECP's on this train worked as required.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

Here is a report on an earlier derailment last year also caused by overheating wheel bearings, where railroad officials told the crew involved to ignore the sensors that detected the problem … just miles before a derailment caused by this overheated wheel occurred.

All this testifies to the laxness towards safety and regulation of U.S. railroads, lack of investment in new safety equipment, etc. It should be noted there are an average of 1,700 derailments every year in the U.S., mostly with far less catastrophic results than those of this Ohio event.

A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts

In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to derail miles later in Sandusky, Ohio.

www.propublica.org

 

[Nostra]

 

[Billiejeens]

It's disappointing that instead of addressing the real problem here - the Trump administration's rollback of important safety regulations - maybelooking is focusing instead on who visited the area first. This kind of deflection is exactly what allows politicians to get away with endangering the lives of the American people in pursuit of corporate interests. It's time to have a real conversation about the damage that has been done to our safety regulations under the previous administration and what we can do to fix it

Yes but your post is a complete lie.
So there's that.

 

[Billiejeens]

And Trump isn’t alone.

This is consistent with Republicans’ reckless, irresponsible pursuit of meritless deregulation.

Nope

 

[Billiejeens]

The Obama safety brake rule would not have applied as the train did not meet the "high-hazard flammable" threshold. A 'hot axle' was the root cause.

But NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said that the brake rule would not have prevented the accident because the train did not meet the "high-hazard flammable" threshold to require them
"Surveillance video from a residence showed what appears to be a wheel bearing in the final stage of overheat failure moments before the derailment,"

New details emerge about cause of Ohio train derailment

Residents have been waiting for details for weeks. Several federal organizations, including the NTSB and EPA, are conducting investigations into the incident.

www.newsweek.com

Only within their already brainwashed Cult members.

 

[Delldude]

Here is a report on an earlier derailment last year also caused by overheating wheel bearings, where railroad officials told the crew involved to ignore the sensors that detected the problem … just miles before a derailment caused by this overheated wheel occurred.

All this testifies to the laxness towards safety and regulation of U.S. railroads, lack of investment in new safety equipment, etc. It should be noted there are an average of 1,700 derailments every year in the U.S., mostly with far less catastrophic results than those of this Ohio event.

A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts

In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to derail miles later in Sandusky, Ohio.

www.propublica.org

I'd think any communications between crew and a help desk would be part of the records accessible during an accident investigation. If so, that's an issue for NS.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

From a previous linked post, the ECP was still a requirement on cars carrying toxic materials. NTSB pointed out the ECP's on this train worked as required.

The wheel bearing burned up. WTf would different brakes have done to prevent that?

 

[Delldude]

The wheel bearing burned up. WTf would different brakes have done to prevent that?

Possibly prevented the piling on into cars ahead.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

The wheel bearing burned up. WTf would different brakes have done to prevent that?

STOPPED the TRAIN, SOONER.

 

[Delldude]

STOPPED the TRAIN, SOONER.

No, it could have kept rear cars from piling into cars in front of each other, limiting the amount of derailment.

BTW- ECP's are unreliable.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

No, it could have kept rear cars from piling into cars in front of each other, limiting the amount of derailment.

BTW- ECP's are unreliable.

You're FOS.

Traditional train braking systems use pneumatic valves to control and generate brake applications on the cars along the length of the train. In general, this conventional system consists of a brake pipe that runs the length of the train which supplies air to reservoirs mounted on each of the cars. When the brake pipe and car components are charged with air, the brakes release.

When the engineer needs to make a brake application, control valves in the locomotive reduce the brake pipe pressure. As the brake pipe pressure is reduced, the service portions on each car divert air from their reservoirs to their brake cylinders. To release the brakes, the engineer charges the brake pipe. This method of controlling the brakes on freight and passenger cars has remained virtually unchanged since its invention by George Westinghouse in 1868.

The conventional braking system suffers from many weaknesses; one of which is in the reaction time. Because the engineer controls the flow of air into and out of the brake pipe from the locomotive, it can take up to two minutes for a commanded brake application to propagate to the back of a long freight train. This uneven braking can cause significant forces to build up between the cars in a train.



In contrast, ECP braking uses electronic controls which make it possible to activate air-powered brakes on the cars. On an ECP-equipped train, the cars are equipped with a trainline cable that runs parallel to the brake pipe down the length of the train. This cable is used to supply power to the electronic components installed on the cars. The cable also doubles as a communication medium that allows the locomotive to send commands to, and receive feedback from, the cars along the length of the train.

ECP provides many benefits over the traditional braking system. For example, since all the cars receive the brake command at the same time, the brakes are applied uniformly and instantaneously. This provides much better train control, shortens the stopping distances, and leads to a lower risk of derailment or of coupling breakage.

Also with ECP, the brake pipe remains charged during operation. This allows the reservoirs on the cars to continuously charge making it less likely for the braking air supply to be exhausted. Further, since the cars can also send their status to the locomotive at the front, the engineer can monitor the state of the train and know at any given time the braking capabilities available.

The ECPB can also apply the brakes on the rearmost wagons slightly before the brakes on the front wagons are applied, which reduces the shock and noise of the wagons bunching up.

 

[whitehall]

What safety rules? Apparently a wheel bearing hated up. Even if Trump somehow changed the regulations the Biden administration had two years to change them back but apparently the priorities were making sure the railroads hired more transgender freakazoids.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Possibly prevented the piling on into cars ahead.

As soon as air pressure is lost the brakes lock up. It wouldn’t have stopped anything faster.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

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