The claim they added real regulation is what is ridiculous. It was smoke and mirrors. They take lobbyist money too.
This is a govt failure by both parties. And the bickering over who is to blame is exactly what they want. Because then the story is the finger pointing and not actually fixing it.
That is what you are falling for. It isn't right v left. Its rich vs poor.
The only people bickering about the blame are the ones who haven't read the preliminary report from the NTSB which puts the blame directly on Norfolk Southern’s policy to only stop and inspect a bearing after it has reached 170 degrees above ambient temperature.
The bearing, according to the report, was 38 degrees above ambient temperature when it passed through a hot box 30 miles outside East Palestine. No alert went out, the NTSB said.
Ten miles later, the next hot box detected that the bearing had reached 103 degrees above ambient. Video of the train recorded in that area shows sparks and flames around the rail car. Still, no alert went to the crew.
It wasn’t until a further 10 miles down the tracks, as the train reached East Palestine, that a hot box detector recorded the bearing’s temperature at 253 degrees above ambient and sent an alarm message instructing the crew to slow and stop the train to inspect a hot axle, the report says.
The reason for the bearing failure has yet to be determined.
The NTSB report.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/RRD23MR005.aspx
A 2019 report on the use of trackside detecters recommends stopping a train after a 50 degree increase in temperature between sensors located 10 miles apart, it further states that wheel bearing temperature will double in its rate of heating in the next 10 mile stretch making for an extremly hazardous situation.
The 2019 report.
https://www.utrgv.edu/railwaysafety...mechanical/ijrt_wayside-hbd-investigation.pdf
