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  • Goduckies
    Goduckies Member Posts: 8,085 Standard Supporter
    edited February 2023
    Blueduck said:

    Yep, they made a movie about a train derailment and huge toxic

    46XiJCAB said:

    Blueduck said:

    Yep, nothing to see here...,
    They made a movie about a train derailment and huge toxic cloud that's set in Ohio, using extras from Palestine and release the movie a couple months before it actually happens in the exact same area.

    Totally coincidence

    I watched that movie and the interesting thing is the movie wasn’t entirely based around the toxic cloud. Just the first half.
    Fun fact, the movie was based on a book written over 30 years ago...(which doesn't exactly help the "coincidence theorists")
    Yes, this isn't a far fetched idea... this has happened through the years in Canada 50 people died in a horrific wreck. Trains unfortunately are dangerous.
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  • Goduckies
    Goduckies Member Posts: 8,085 Standard Supporter
    RoadTrip said:

    Goduckies said:

    RaceBannon said:

    lol go duckies and mello

    Two peas in a pod

    Considering i just got hired by BNSF and have been a train buff my whole life and knew about this a week before you all, no I'm not connected to mello.... But yes, i do know what happened and what caused it... it wasn't some grand conspiracy theory...
    There's video evidence of the car scraping and causing sparks well before it happened. The next question is why was it undetected or neglected?
    Every 20 miles there is a detector... trains are also up to 2 miles long now making it harder to see those issues by the crew that is now only in the cab, no caboose for 30 years. The real question which hasn't come out yet is if the hot box detector went off prior and the NS dispatcher told them to keep going which now in the days of Precision scheduled railroading(aka bigger trains less staff less maintenance) they might have pushed it. Sadly they and east Palestine might have got burned due to that.


    Railroads never used to be controlled by wall street near as much as they are now so they have been cutting corners unfortunately. If it wasn't a life long goal of mine to work on the railroad, i wouldn't ever think of taking the job now.
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,150 Standard Supporter
    I know nothing about the science or engineering of trains, but two miles seems really long and probably unsafe.
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  • Goduckies
    Goduckies Member Posts: 8,085 Standard Supporter
    Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

    I know nothing about the science or engineering of trains, but two miles seems really long and probably unsafe.

    Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

    I know nothing about the science or engineering of trains, but two miles seems really long and probably unsafe.

    They are usually safe that long. Hundreds of trains a day now are running that size with zero issue, but when shit hits the fan, yes it's not as safe.
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