Train derailment and chemical spill in Ohio

Not just an Ohio factory. It's suburban Cleveland. Granted, it's one of the crappy suburbs, but still, very urban.

 

Amazed it wasn’t TimkenSteel. Again.

 

Biden should probably make an appearance in Ohio if he hasn't already.

 

Concrete ties have repeatedly failed. The Boston subway system used concrete ties on a new line opened in the 1980s, and they had to be replaced within 10-15 years. Amtrak had the same issue on the upper half of the Northeast Corridor.

 

Deregulation. Cant expect the company to pay for things like safety.

 

Concrete ties are widely used around the world and are cheaper than most other materials. Railroads also use composite polymer/recycled materials ties and even steel ties.

 

Then why do they fail here repeatedly? Legit question, no snark intended.

 

Because MBTA sucks.

 

It’s not just the MBTA (which does suck). Amtrak had the same issue. We’re America, we fuck things up a lot, I figure we took some shortcuts somewhere that led to the failures.

 

Amtrak still uses concrete ties extensively. I haven't heard of a recent derailment caused just by bad ties. (Which are often called crossties in the trade. To distinguish them from neckties, I suppose.)

 

Certainly consensus in Rupert Murdoch's rumpus room.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/east-...urious-bidens-ukraine-visit-biggest-slap-face

https://nypost.com/2023/02/21/east-palestine-mayor-rips-biden-for-not-visiting-ohio-train-site/

 

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This is why the JD Vances win Ohio.

We shouldn't be surprised in 2024 when Joe Biden let it get to this.

I get there are a lot of train derailments and catastrophes all over America every year and that the President can't get to each little town, burg, and hamlet.

But this is one of those times he should have been there. He still might go. But it's too late.

"That was the biggest slap in the face," Conaway said on "Jesse Watters Primetime." "That tells you right now he doesn’t care about us. He can send every agency he wants to, but I found out this morning that he was in Ukraine giving millions of dollars away to people over there and not to us…on President's Day in our country, so I'm furious."