“Monster trains” are jumping off of tracks across America and regulators are doing little to curb the risk.
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Mon. Apr 3, 2023
Trains are getting longer. Railroads are getting richer. But these “monster trains” are jumping off of tracks across America and regulators are doing little to curb the risk.
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In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to derail miles later in Sandusky, Ohio.
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