trump (the former guy)
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 9:10 am
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Donald Trump spent four years demolishing rail safety protections at the expense of the health and safety of average Americans. His trip to East Palestine, Ohio today is purely political theatre and a sad attempt to mask his failures as a President. We won’t let him.
@RonFilipkowski
Maybe instead of handing out Trump Water and buying Big Macs, Trump or his Transportation Secretary could’ve visited the site of ONE of the 4,000+ train derailments during his presidency, or done something like pass an Infrastructure Bill to fix the problem.
I don't have the video clip at hand, but it shows railway security cameras recording the train with hot brakes or other hot undercarriage already tens of miles prior to the derailment. The suggestion is that the automatic reporting of hot brakes based on the thermal images while the waggons pass the camera may have malfunctioned, or the train engineers may have ignored the waring. Although my understanding is that the warning also goes to the traffic control center.noblepa wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:28 pm The Trump-repealed regulation that is most often referred to in these discussions is one that required, or would have required, upgraded brakes on rail cars carrying hazardous materials.
To be fair, while no official cause has been determined for the East Palestine wreck, the speculation I have heard is that it was a failed axle/bearing that allowed the axle to shear off, causing the derailment.
Once a railcar leaves the rails, brakes become irrelevant. And the brakes currently used on railcars are perfectly capable of locking the wheels on the train. If the air hoses connecting the cars in the train where to fail, every car in the train would go into "emergency" and lock every wheel on the train.
So, while I don't for a moment doubt that Trump is/was against ALL regulations, regardless of the need or efficacy of those rules, I find it a bit disingenuous to blame Trump for the wreck. OTOH, for him to go to Ohio and talk about himself and football, is ludicrous.
Easy go, just send one hazarous chemical product down the line, no cleaning required, followed by the next catastrophic mixture ....raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:12 pm I heard on Fox today that the derailment and ensuing environment disaster is the fault of Democrats for blocking pipelines, which are the only safe way to move hazardous materials. FWIW.
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and Lisa Page to depose Donald TRUMP and Chris WRAY for two hours each.
The twist? She wants to know if Joe Biden will assert any privilege over the testimony.
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@joshgerstein
The two-hour depositions will be on a "narrow" set of topics that ABJ approved at a sealed hearing today.
Strzok and Page have litigated for years to get these depositions about the way their texts were released and Trump's role in Strzok's ouster.
They want to spend billions of dollars to build pipelines for every conceivable type of hazardous material? Many of them would need dedicate pipes that carry nothing else, meaning we could conceivably need dozens of pipelines over the same route, each carrying a different material.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:12 pm I heard on Fox today that the derailment and ensuing environment disaster is the fault of Democrats for blocking pipelines, which are the only safe way to move hazardous materials. FWIW.
I haven't seen the clip you're referring to, but that is consistent with the diagnosis of a bearing or axle failure. In the old days, they used to call them hotboxes, because the bearings were simple solid bronze or brass pieces that the axle fitted into. There were, literally, oily rags that lubricated them. Sometimes the rags caught fire. Modern cars have all roller bearings, so hotboxes are rare, but they can happen.RTH10260 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:11 pmI don't have the video clip at hand, but it shows railway security cameras recording the train with hot brakes or other hot undercarriage already tens of miles prior to the derailment. The suggestion is that the automatic reporting of hot brakes based on the thermal images while the waggons pass the camera may have malfunctioned, or the train engineers may have ignored the waring. Although my understanding is that the warning also goes to the traffic control center.noblepa wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:28 pm The Trump-repealed regulation that is most often referred to in these discussions is one that required, or would have required, upgraded brakes on rail cars carrying hazardous materials.
To be fair, while no official cause has been determined for the East Palestine wreck, the speculation I have heard is that it was a failed axle/bearing that allowed the axle to shear off, causing the derailment.
Once a railcar leaves the rails, brakes become irrelevant. And the brakes currently used on railcars are perfectly capable of locking the wheels on the train. If the air hoses connecting the cars in the train where to fail, every car in the train would go into "emergency" and lock every wheel on the train.
So, while I don't for a moment doubt that Trump is/was against ALL regulations, regardless of the need or efficacy of those rules, I find it a bit disingenuous to blame Trump for the wreck. OTOH, for him to go to Ohio and talk about himself and football, is ludicrous.
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YEP. Pipelines do leak. And the Keystone Pipeline was running from Canada right across the richest growing soil in the USA. And the Keystone Pipeline was not bringing "black gold"... it was going to be garbage sand oil that cannot be refined into petro. Plastics, yeah.noblepa wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:15 pm They want to spend billions of dollars to build pipelines for every conceivable type of hazardous material? Many of them would need dedicate pipes that carry nothing else, meaning we could conceivably need dozens of pipelines over the same route, each carrying a different material.
And what about solid hazardous materials? Some things just can't be pumped through pipes.
Pipelines work for oil because there is so much of it and it generally goes from point A to point B, not points a-z to points 1-1000. The permutations of pipeline would reach into the millions.
Oh, and pipelines leak.
But then, we know that Fox is only interested in fomenting outrage at Democrats.
Not so fast.noblepa wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:28 pm Once a railcar leaves the rails, brakes become irrelevant. And the brakes currently used on railcars are perfectly capable of locking the wheels on the train. If the air hoses connecting the cars in the train where to fail, every car in the train would go into "emergency" and lock every wheel on the train.
Gregg, Sonny Boy and I were in Hotlanta in June 2021 to see the Doyerz play the Braves. We had breakfast at a Waffle House a few blocks from our motel. I regret to state that I tossed the receipt.Gregg wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 8:12 pmNo, they don't. They have the cheap knock off Huddle House where I swear to Dog if you remove the logo the menu is identical. I honestly thought the first time I went to one that it was the same company with a different DBA in the market for some reason.humblescribe wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:30 pmBut...but you have Waffle House!Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 6:44 pm
Ohhh sure, show White Castles to a guy from the north who's stuck in GA where all we can get is the low rent knock off Krystals....
If you stand nearby when a loaded freight passes, you get an idea. The ground rumbles.
Wait, I thought he went to help the people of E. Palestine?
I grew up in a railroad family and the scuttlebutt was that some engineers would NOT put the train in emergency when they saw a car/truck on the tracks. As you say, there was no way the train was not going to hit it and putting a train in emergency almost guarantees a derailment, which as East Palestine shows us, can be catastrophic.Volkonski wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 5:41 pm In my pre-retirement days we had monthly safety meetings. One of these featured a Union Pacific (the only rail line that serviced our plants east of Houston which is another story) engineer. He explained how little control he had of a train. If he saw a vehicle ahead of him on the tracks all he could do was throw the train into emergency and then get down on the cab floor and hope the vehicle did not contain flammable liquid.
Main line trains need a long distance (miles) to stop. By the time he could see a vehicle on the tracks there was no way not to hit it.
He relegated himself to Orly Taitz level, searching the search engines for himselfKendra wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 8:14 pm https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/stat ... 4510746624
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/stat ... 8086174721Wait, I thought he went to help the people of E. Palestine?
There exists a separate braking systems for trains that applies the brakes from the rear of the train forward, but it requires another air line and is expensive so US railways haven't adopted it yet. It's standard on freight trains in Europe.tek wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:48 pmNot so fast.noblepa wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:28 pm Once a railcar leaves the rails, brakes become irrelevant. And the brakes currently used on railcars are perfectly capable of locking the wheels on the train. If the air hoses connecting the cars in the train where to fail, every car in the train would go into "emergency" and lock every wheel on the train.
The emergency brake "command" is the venting of the brake pipe. This does not propagate instantly, in fact it propagates pretty slowly... so quite a bit of time elapses before the brakes on the cars are the rear of the train start applying. Also, once the wheels lock the braking force is much lower. Railcar brakes on loaded cars usually aren't set to lock (or capable of locking) the wheels for this reason.
Anyawy, all this causes the rear cars to push the cars in front of them, which can cause cars to derail that otherwise wouldn't have. Once these derailed cards are off the track, their brakes are useless (as you noted) - and the cars plow into whatever is in their path. This often ends up e.g. tank cars puncturing each other.
There are at least a few rail accident reports I've read where throwing the train into emergency ended up CAUSING a derailment.
humblescribe wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 5:54 pmGregg, Sonny Boy and I were in Hotlanta in June 2021 to see the Doyerz play the Braves. We had breakfast at a Waffle House a few blocks from our motel. I regret to state that I tossed the receipt.
We also tried the Waffle House across the Ohio from your very own Queen City on our way to the airport in Covington after we watched the Doyerz wallop the Reds in 2019. I even got moody with Hudy at the game!
I don't think we will tempt fate a third time.
There are also "two-way EOTs" (End Of Train devices) that sit in the coupler of the last car, connect to the brake line, and are in radio communication with the locomotive cab.. Well, SUPPOSED to be in communication.. miles-long trains winding through terrain end up causing that communication to fail. Anyway, the EOT relays the brake-pipe pressure to the cab (so the engineer can more detect a separation near the end of the train more quickly), and it can also dump the brake line on command from the cab to cause an emergency braking action to propagate from the rear of the train. Several classes of trains are required to have these, but as noted they often don't work on long trains where they are needed most.