Yep. Can confirm derailments happen constantly, you just only heard about them more after east Palestine. Tbf, that one was especially bad, but over 1k happen a year. Usually just grain cars or similar though.
Wasn't that a pretty misleading stat, though? As in, most of them "derailed" in the station at low speed, and didn't even flip or anything?
Similar to "school shootings" including NDs in the parking lot next door with no injuries, the stats were trotted out to conveniently fit the narrative.
Not saying train derailments don't happen, and we don't hear about them...but I think the mainstream stats they pulled up were also bogus.
That's the fra definition of derailments. There's probably 80+ a year with cars on the ground, though I don't have exact numbers and I'm on vacation and not digging through fra reports right now.
most of them "derailed" in the station at low speed
This much is true. BUT... a disproportionately high percentage of THOSE derails will be hazmat, BECAUSE safety derailleurs are required in hazmat terminals.
Most of the "in the wild" derails occur because of flash flood damage, or from rotted ties with bolted rail.
Yep. Can confirm derailments happen constantly, you just only heard about them more after east Palestine. Tbf, that one was especially bad, but over 1k happen a year. Usually just grain cars or similar though.
Wasn't that a pretty misleading stat, though? As in, most of them "derailed" in the station at low speed, and didn't even flip or anything?
Similar to "school shootings" including NDs in the parking lot next door with no injuries, the stats were trotted out to conveniently fit the narrative.
Not saying train derailments don't happen, and we don't hear about them...but I think the mainstream stats they pulled up were also bogus.
That's the fra definition of derailments. There's probably 80+ a year with cars on the ground, though I don't have exact numbers and I'm on vacation and not digging through fra reports right now.
Yes and no.
This much is true. BUT... a disproportionately high percentage of THOSE derails will be hazmat, BECAUSE safety derailleurs are required in hazmat terminals.
Most of the "in the wild" derails occur because of flash flood damage, or from rotted ties with bolted rail.
Define "east Palestine"? Is that supposed to be a joke delegitimizing the state of Israel?
Are you actually retarded?
That cretin is either a fed or larping wehraboo deliberately playing a strawman to incite wehraboo shit / forum slide. His posting history proves it.
Except he actively baits anti-Jew comments to report those users and get them banned, removing the comments.