A report will be released soon on what investigators found at Norfolk Southern after the fiery February derailment that prompted the evacuation of half of East Palestine, Ohio.
Federal regulators have said that safety data hasn’t changed enough to show that the railroads’ new operating model is unsafe. The figures do show that the rate of accidents per every million miles freight trains travel increased from 15.572 to 16.695 over the past decade even though the total number of incidents declined as railroads hauled less freight. The rate of accidents inside railyards also worsened from 11.044 in 2013 to 15.517 last year.
There have also been concerns raised about the safety of today’s long trains that routinely stretch more than two miles. Bose said that the FRArailroads to be careful about the way they assemble long trains to reduce the risk of derailments. The freight railroads favor longer trains because they allow them to deliver the same amount of freight with fewer crews and locomotives.
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