Big problem here is that the freight railroads are all being run like vulture capital operations. They own the trackage, so it's their responsibility to maintain it, and it's not like they don't have the money. Norfolk Southern's profits (not revenue, this is after costs) Sept 30 2022- Sept 30 2023 were over 8 billion dollars. Union Pacific did $14 billion in 2022. They can afford to maintain their shit, but they're not; they're just letting their tracks and rolling stock go to hell and shrugging when it blows up. Just flat out not paying your cost centers is not a thing a sane business does if it wants to keep doing business for long. I'm convinced that the major rail carriers long-term plan is to just not pay to repair a goddamn thing until the rail infra is completely broken, declare bankruptcy, and then sell it to the government. The government will make CONRAIL 2 (see: CONRAIL, which is what happened the last time they pulled this shit), spend an ass-ton of taxpayer dollars fixing this bullshit, and then sell it back to the privates for pennies on the dollar because of FrEe MaRkEt EfFiCiEnCy.

The Boeing planes are also very safe.

It's the fault of the pilots for not understanding undocumented things and not having checked plug doors nuts before taking off !

In any case it definitely has nothing to do with corporate greed hindering safety. Definitely.

Truly, the hero we need.

Don't spoil the fun

What in the

Lmao

What about the three-trolley problem though?

And there is also one of those rare "railroad crossing an expressway" in St-Hyacinthe near exit 130 on A20.

WTF

https://imgur.com/RZ5Psxi

In the summer time (Missoula, MT)

You just can't see the tracks under the snow

Trains do be reversing sometimes.

It looks like the train spun out and slid backwards off the tracks on the right

It is reversing, or in railroadind terms running long nose forward

That's a railroad crossing, it isn't free driving.

I've seen a documentary about a train making a year long route around the entire world during ice age and it was still able to break though the ice. This is just bad engineering.

The contact patch of the wheels on a train is roughly 90,000 PSI of vertical pressure. You need a lot of ice to derail a train.

I watch that video to get fired up about rail infrastructure.

That's an actual railroad crossing...