The rate of accidents on the company's railway increased in each of the last four years, according to a Norfolk SouthernCEO Alan Shaw told shareholders that Norfolk Southern's service was “at the best it’s been in more than two years," the Times reports.
Just days later, a 150-car freight train, which was pulling at least five tanker cars containing vinyl chloride, a colorless but hazardous and carcinogenic gas, derailed in Ohio.The crash forced hundreds of East Palestine residents to evacuate before the release and burn-off of the vinyl chloride.
At the same time, railway companies have lobbied against new rules aimed at making trains safer, per the Times.
The accident was bad enough, but the real harm was done by the stupid decision to “just burn it.”
wow - no wonder DeWine doesn't want the Fed's help