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The train tracks have been there for over 100 years. No problems. If it keeps you awake at night you should have thought of that prior to moving to the Villages.

Three-mile long train? lol, no.

That's Drudge Report material.

You have WAY too much time on your hands to worry about things that probably wont happen.

Nope. GAO.

Rail Safety: Freight Trains Are Getting Longer, and Additional Information Is Needed to Assess Their Impact | U.S. GAO

“Thirty-eight cars in the 141-car train, stretching two miles long and operated by Norfolk Southern, were carrying a variety of chemicals including vinyl chloride.”

And just for the record, I do not read The Drudge Report.

Wait--we are comparing numbers to 2020-2021 during covid when the economy slowed down. Thank God the rate was down then -- nothing was moving.

Say the same to the East Palestine residents I'm sure they didn't expect it to happen either. Let’s worry about dog poop.

The truth is probably "yes", depending also on the predominate political philosophy of the area also. I've posted I don't live my life thinking what "might" happen, but you are correct, how can one be the first car stopped down by the Oxford crossing where so many LONG, LONG, trains go through at least once, usually more, each day... a MAJOR route. The sad "drip, drip, drip" has started; seems the railroad employees have been alarmed for some time at the length railroads are going to to save money, lengthening trains to dangerous levels, putting off track repairs as often as possible, and NO contingency planning (even it it never happens) on the part of railroad officials, officials of the communities close to such major tracks (The Villages, Oxford, Wildwood, etc. etc), and the Federal and state governments. Do you think the leaders of these communities (Villages does not even HAVE a mayor or city council so would be dependent on each of the counties to KNOW what do) would be at the top of their game and have FACTUAL information on what to do ? The whole situation in Ohio and Pennsylvania just highlights how expendable human life is to the political class regardless of philosophical direction. Hopefully, as usual, religious organizations, volunteer organizations, etc. will step in and give some REAL help in this disaster.

Yes but obviously does not work for the govt

Why do my Federal tax dollars need to pay for everything?

Sorry, but 'cherry-picking' not allowed. lol

Which is the only explanation for ignoring this part...

"Between 2012 and 2021, the hazmat accident rate was down 55%."

That's 9 years, for the math challenged. lol

Thanks for introducing facts, to a very uninformed comment/opinion.

A very close friend of mine, who has about a half-century in the railroad industry (many years at the executive level), told me that before CSX sold the line from Pensacola to Baldwin a few years ago, they had experimented with trains from between 15,000'...all the way up to 19,000' long.

They used DP's (distributed power), which are locomotives positioned back toward the middle of the train to reduce in-train stresses (buff/draft), that are caused by just having locomotives on the head-end. The reason they chose this portion of their system to experiment with, was because of the relatively flat grade and minimal curvature.

I've been a railroad 'fan' for many years, but not to be confused with being a - "railroad foamer." LOL

It's corporately owned RR Tracks, RR cars
“ America's freight railroads are almost entirely privately owned and operated. Unlike trucks and barges, freight railroads operate overwhelmingly on infrastructure they own, build, maintain and pay for themselves. Approximately 630 freight railroads operate across the nearly 140,000-mile U.S. freight rail network.”
“ In short: railroad tracks. More specifically: the rail service doesn’t own many of them, a situation arising from the its origins, as a product of the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, when it was created largely because railroad companies could not make passenger rail profitable anymore. But while that law put hundreds of passenger lines under Amtrak’s control, it did not give them ownership over the vast majority of country’s railroad tracks, meaning that unlike nearly every other country in the world, the American government largely doesn’t own its own intercity rail infrastructure.”

Hmmm...

I seem to remember a famous Floridian singing about that...

Another train derailment today near Detroit. One hazmat car was in the lineup. That car was derailed but did not lose its load.