I want to see the actual numbers come the end of the year. Because something tells me it wasnt any more than normal, it was just the media started reporting on them more. Like what happened with the supposed jump in fires at food processing plants that turned out to be in line with the average.

The only unusual derailment was the one in Ohio, and that seems like a situation where I am going to blame the railroad, since if my dad's hunch is right (from experience as a retired firefighter), it sounds like the railroad may have been cooking the books resulting in the wrong technique to fight the fire, causing the chemical fire we all saw.

Here's the thing about the news: it's not worth reporting on the common. Pretty much everyone got worked up over the Ohio thing because, frankly, they were hoping to use it to dunk on Trump. Everyone talking about "how this would have been prevented if Deviant Don didn't scrap the new break regulation" despite the facts that:

1. The breaks would have done nothing to prevent the derailing.
2. The regulation was scraped because the cost-benefit outcome that was outlined under the Obama-era bill required a threshold to be passed.
3. It would have likely caused more injuries that it prevented as rail workers would have to spend more time between cars.
4. We would have literally zero rail car transportation as mixed-brake systems wouldn't be possible.

Also, remember that time Biden cracked down on rail worker protests?

Yeah, that jumped out at me too.