Guess we could impose fines starting at half the value of your business when failure to maintain causes an accident resulting in injury and start at 3/4 the value of your business when it results in contamination by hazardous chemicals. Then you can choose how you want to budget and schedule your maintenance.Of course, when everything goes right, you only have to sit and wait for a 3 mile long train to pass.
No need for elevations. We will (finally) have Jetsons flying cars by time all the engineering drawings are even completed.Beyond impractical. Fantasy land.
Yea I think the Jetsons flying cars are scheduled to be here by 2023 1/2, if not sooner.No need for elevations. We will (finally) have Jetsons flying cars by time all the engineering drawings are even completed.
No need for elevations. We will (finally) have Jetsons flying cars by time all the engineering drawings are even completed.
Only slightly more of a pipe dream than the the EV utopia future they are promising…Yea I think the Jetsons flying cars are scheduled to be here by 2023 1/2, if not sooner.
True story...when I worked up at GM Powertrain in Castleton, Rick Wagonner and Mary Barra came to tour the labs and have a "town hall" meeting. Honest to goodness, one of the very young lady engineers asked them when the flying cars were set to be released. Took a LOT of self restraint from the rest of us not to comment...Only slightly more of a pipe dream than the the EV utopia future they are promising…
What difference would a notification ahead of time have made?Ohio governor says there is no federal law that the railroads have to notify the state there are hazardous materials on a train...
He's the damn governor, he could of had a law for his own state..the guy is republican and signs laws all the time. Seems it doesn't matter what political party you're from, they are all idiots!!
Exactly. I want to know why they didnt catch that burning wheel bearing. There is a defect detector in the town. I wonder if it made it to the detector or if it derailed before?What difference would a notification ahead of time have made?
Interstate commerce clause federalizes that issue. Legislature could make the law, governor could sign it and it wouldn't last 3 monthsOhio governor says there is no federal law that the railroads have to notify the state there are hazardous materials on a train...
He's the damn governor, he could of had a law for his own state..the guy is republican and signs laws all the time. Seems it doesn't matter what political party you're from, they are all idiots!!
Train was traveling west to east. More important than the defect detector - hot spot detector, actually - there is another unit twenty miles to the west that the train passed in the same area where the security camera footage showed red hot metal and sparks being thrown by one of the cars. The question is did they get a warning 20 miles before East Palestine and ignore it or miss it somehow or was that other detector inopEDIT: I found the defect detector is smack in the middle of town. The accident happened just east of town.
Anyone have a link to which direction it was traveling? So it either crashed right before or right after the defect detector.
Not sure how that would have helped. That law probably also would impact cost to consumers. Lithium batteries are considered hazardous. So now you have to notify states ahead of time that you got a load of electronics in a car and wait for them to give the go ahead.Ohio governor says there is no federal law that the railroads have to notify the state there are hazardous materials on a train...
He's the damn governor, he could have had a law for his own state..the guy is republican and signs laws all the time. Seems it doesn't matter what political party you're from, they are all idiots!!
There already are fees charged for transporting anything hazardous. Apparently none of those fees goto the states.Not sure how that would have helped. That law probably also would impact cost to consumers. Lithium batteries are considered hazardous. So now you have to notify states ahead of time that you got a load of electronics in a car and wait for them to give the go ahead.