If it is enemy action, then who is doing this? What is the end game here? Might be an enemy, but could also be like the train derailments. If memory serves, everyone made a big hoopla about some recent train derailments, but it turned out to be a fairly common occurrence in an empire built on cut costs, DIE and broken infrastructure.
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.
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.
“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.” Does this make it 2/3?
If it is enemy action, then who is doing this? What is the end game here? Might be an enemy, but could also be like the train derailments. If memory serves, everyone made a big hoopla about some recent train derailments, but it turned out to be a fairly common occurrence in an empire built on cut costs, DIE and broken infrastructure.
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.
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.