Freight train derails outside Chicago, evacuations underway
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- Officials in Matteson, Illinois, are urging residents within a mile of a freight train derailment to evacuate, with a post on the town's Facebook page saying they should plan for a "long-term evacuation." Police say the train derailed Thursday morning and crews are checking each freight car for potential chemical leaks. CBS News Chicago's Suzanne Le Mignot is on the scene with more.
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DON'T SET IT ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!
I was going to write that too.
listen up n.s
Dont worry, they'll just flush it into the water table.
This is Illinois, we know what to do.
That train in Palestine Ohio they did it spread chemicals for 6 states fact
East Palestine Ohio is still ongoing..... they're just not wanting to talk about it
Biden didn’t even go there
@@erics5810 He did go there, eventually.
@@erics5810 Yes he did go.
Unfortunate town name from a public support angle.
@@Trea-pl4xr After how long?
I don't understand how they can refuse to tell the public what substances are involved. Or how they can keep getting away with these catastrophic derailments. That's an enormous evacuation area. People can't just leave their homes because a corporation is negligent. A lot barely scrape by, they can't afford to just leave town.
They're checking what's there Railroad has information for authorities This just occurred for goodness sake 30 minutes ago
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@@Redsdaughter2
Your failure to use punctuation makes your reply incoherent.
@@Redsdaughter2it's because they're already trying to turn this into something Trump is a victim of!
"Various" 😂 You don't say.
Here we go again 🤦🏽♂️
😅I was just getting ready to say the same thing..
Yeah I was wondering what the next farming community it would be to have another Oops train carrying poisonous chemicals would be derailing in
Again with what???
I live 6 mins away from this derailment. They arent saying anything. They did an evactuation for a 1 mile radius near the derailment. But then 1:30pm the police called off the evacuation but still not saying anything???
SENDING LOVE. Be well.
Seal your windows and doors if you live that close. You don't want any gas fumes into your house.
@@colleenpeck6347 that's what I'm doing now. I'm sealing the windows for my dogs then me and my family are gonna go somewhere 40 mins away from here
Just make sure you're upwind
Just make sure you're upwind
Don’t spend money on more workers checking out the cars, give the executives more money and give the CEO huge bonuses and severance packages.
Sounds like you're auditioning for a seat in Congress!
Don't forget about rolling back those pesky regulations.
The tankers and cars don't cause the derailments - the tracks cause them because. The tracks are private property and belong to the rail road companies.
And don't forget, when you as CEO give money back to the politicians who helped you maintain your position and your huge bonus, that's not bribery, that's a "tip"!
@@heyaisdabomb😂
Regulations & workers > profits.
Cool fantasy story plot.
@@Skeletron1000 Cool, we have a reason to revoke corporate charter and put you out of business.
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThinghe wasn’t endorsing the idea that profit is more important he’s expressing his cynical belief that our society will continue to treat profit as being more important
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing as long as elephants and donkeys are allowed to carefully maintain a version of capitalism in which the corporations do not pay these external costs
@@SigFigNewton Fair enough
DOT-111 train cars, deemed unsafe for decades, still in use.
Cheap steel from overseas. We need to re industrialize American steel. Subsidized from D.C. Joliet Illinois would be ideal with the train yards, canals, and roads like I80,294,355,55,57,90,94
They also need to move Stateville prison and develop a 3rd Airport on that property. Between Rt. 53 and Weber Road (Larkin Ave ) Caton farm road to Lewis University .Military , USPS, UPS, Amazon, FedEx, DHL, and public transportation.
lookin like a museum exhibit, save 2 of'em
Well, it’s bad for RR bottom line to update. That’d be expensive! Can’t let something that still works go to waste!
Man why do people live where it derailed? That was stupid of them. If they wanted to be healthy, they shouldn’t live so close to rails. Duh.
@@jessmason2112 Who is the 'they' you have in mind to do all that? Are you volunteering? I mean, you're the one with the bright idea, right?
Our infrastructure is pathetic.
$$$$ and PROFIT is All that Matters to Them.
But they are constantly building. Not affordable housing. But housing and rentals for the wealthy & real estate investors benefit. The infrastructure is deplorable everywhere. Zero quality roads, back-to-back traffic tie ups, accidents and increased road rage,
Build Back Better
This is privately owned rail most likely.
@@user-ui7zp5fr8z "Railroad tracks and rights-of-way in the United States are typically owned and maintained by the individual railroad companies that operate on them. Each railroad company is responsible for maintaining its own tracks, bridges, signals, and other infrastructure to ensure safe and efficient operation of their trains."
America has the best rail infrastructure in the world! No one crashes trains like us!
And no CEO is going to get jailed for it. Slap a fine on it and it's fine.
The Umerican way!
We should arrest all car drivers for crashes 😂
Why should any CEO -- or anybody else -- go to jail for a crash that did nothing more than inconvenience people?
Why would a CEO be jailed ofr a drailment accident? Makes no sense.
@@beeble2003 the same way a thief has to go to jail for inconveniencing a retailer????
What do they mean when they say they don’t know what chemicals are in the train but everyone around needs to evacuate? When these trains depart from a destination, isn’t there a process in place to know what being transported in them? They know what’s in there. And why are we constantly transporting deadly chemicals around the country? What are these chemicals for? Where do they come from and who needed these deadly substances transported from one side of the country to another? So many questions but never an answer and we the people are just told that it’s fine. Well tell all those people that now have to leave their shelter that has cost them half a life’s income if not more to shield themselves from things they don’t even know about. I’d love to hear that conversation.
They mean that they, the reporters, don't know what's on the train. The rail company and the emergency services know. The issue is that they don't know which, if any, of the cars are leaking, so they don't know what, if anything, is leaking.
Chemicals are transported because they're used to make stuff. Or because they're used as fuel -- several of the tank cars that are on the ground are the type that's usually used to carry propane. Sometimes, cars like that are used to carry ammonia, which is used, among other things, as a refrigerant in warehouse-sized freezers.
It's a holdover from the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
They know exactly what is in each car
“Privatization will be better”
Really?!?!
Government has done so much for infrastructure…what’s your pointless?
I worked for The Boston and Maine RR in the 70s. Later the RR decided Brakemen riding in the caboose was no longer needed or economically feasible. The Brakeman's job was to watch the train for broken wheels and smoking brakes on the train. I suppose this was deemed not necessary.
There are sensors along the tracks for that function. There could always be more sensors obviously. But it is up to the conductor to actually stop the train if a problem is detected. Which they are pressured not to.
This is all automated now with sensors along the track. A lot more reliable, I'd say.
@@bradisbellyou think sensors that go bad that a human has to go check on why it’s bad and which one it is that’s bad is safer then a human always watching, intervening and reactive when needed to be?
@@bushwickwilly Humans get tired, make mistakes, fail more than some basic sensors. Those sensors can look at a lot more in detail, and report exactly what car and axel the problem is on so that the train can be stopped and someone can quickly go look and solve the problem.
@@bradisbell, maybe, if someone hasn’t monkeyed with it
In Arkansas we had evacuations last week from a nasty chemical and zero coverage and a hazing chemical leak
Oh my G-d, this is so scary...
Because it's Arkansas. Your state doesn't care about its people. And its people largely don't care about gubberment. A vicious circle.
Did Gov. Huckabee tell the railroads to just do whatever they want, Arkansas is "business friendly"?
Cuz we don't care about Arkansas.
Say what Willis
As a cancer survivor... my cancer at the time .. was diagnosed as a environmental.. .
Most are.
I'm truly sorry! I pray you are doing well and recovering
Rail cars are the most dangerous, unmaintained, rundown peices of machinery there is. I work loading them everyday. They are not just poorly maintained, they are not maintained at all!!! They only do repairs. As in when something literally breaks or malfunctions.
Your wrong. Google HM201 inspection and 49 CFR 180.509
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@robertchandler8210
A Google search of codes doesn't show maintenance actually being done. Like I said. I work with train cars daily. I see them every day. I personally witness them, NOT BEING MAINTAINED. Do you personally see them being maintained???
@@lagodifuoco313 good job you got me. But since you’re so smart you should probably have a better job than loading tank cars.
@@lagodifuoco313 If that is all you have to add - grow up.
Where is the Surgeon General This Is A Public Safety Threat….
He's busy trying to convince the public that a new pandemic looms, and that our 2A is a public health crisis. He's busy, dude, cut him a break.😆
He's concentrating on kids vaping.
Where is the Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Pete to assure us of our fears. Trust me.
He just finished up at your moms house.
He is too busy trying to outlaw french fries.
Who owns and maintains these rails? Let's make sure they get a huge raise.
Normal day in USA
Sadly, yes.
Can we get our money back from Iran?
💯
@@cathyr2419 This is a private business on private property! It is not federal! Why can't you MAGA cultists understand this? And we gave Iran BACK THEIR OWN MONEY!
Here we go again…
I was just talking about how the independent impact reports from the vinyl chloride disaster have just come out, and it spread over 6-16 states, so pretty convenient that another happens right when that info comes out...
I refuse to travel both by train or by plane. The infrastructure is becoming unsafe in this country. Time to spend money on re-building it instead of investing in endless wars.
@@soniastjulesdone on purpose for the great reset agenda the WEF has planned
@@matthunt7390 It's deregulation and incompetence, not premeditated sabotage.
@@MsJellyBellyLove You keep telling yourself that.
Isn't there a manifest for every train?
every train car is labeled as to what is inside it. I have a feeling this train has some really nasty stuff in its tank cars. Going to be very difficult to unload them.
Im in Ohio and we were told in our hazmat class for police academy that due to some sort of federal protection, the railroad engineer is not obligated to provide any information (including identity) other than contact info for the railroad. Sounds bizarre to me, but they do not have to provide a manifest or anything to police responders, I dont know how that applies or if it applies to Fire Department.
@@PracticalReformationthat's a lie and yes every train does have a manifesto but that doesn't stop chemicals from spreading in a train wreck and it takes time to do an investigation and safety checks
@@PracticalReformation I've been retired out of the industry (welding supply/compressed gases and professional security) for a few years now, but I thought DOT mandated that MSDS should be provided for every single chemical/gas that transported on public roadways/railroads? Does this regulation you spoke of supersede DOT regulations?
yes but its not shared with the public. Emergency response teams know what materials are on passing trains but for good reason, the public does not get to see the manifest
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@@besmartvoteblue2702 BUILD BACK BETTER. WHEN?
Can we outlaw precision scheduled railroading practices yet? As they are not precision, nor scheduled…and they barely qualify as railroading when the trains derail this frequently.
I have never in my 63 years seen so many disasters o e after another in 3 years!
In 3 years? This has been going on for over a decade, it's just gotten worse the last 3 years due to Trump deregulating the railroads during his term.
all planned out to raise prices
@@Trea-pl4xr Not even close.
@@Trea-pl4xrHow many transportation problems with Trump? .. its DEI Pete..
Brought by a Democrat near you!
This is what unchecked power looks like.
Exactly. When all they have to do is preach about what our government SHOULD be in Civics, no one questions it. Fair and just, separate but equal, land of the free, blah, blah, blah...
How does a company ship chemicals without a public manifest!?
public doesnt need to know
The train engineer and the railroad have all of the details regarding any hazardous materials being transported. Each hazardous item on the manifest will have the UN or NA number, the hazard classification, the proper shipping name, the type of container it is in and the weight.
There is an emergency response guide for first responders to look up detailed information on how to handle an incident involving each regulated hazardous material. It explains the risks of the item being released in the air, ground or water, the fire and fume risks, inhalation or consumption risk and many other details.
This response guide is designed for the person to find the relevant document in just a few seconds. It also provides suggestions for evacuation zone management.
They would have likely looked at each of the hazard descriptions and found the largest evacuation zone size and started with that. Once it is determined there are no leaks the order can be lifted.
There is a manifest. It's not public. For obvious reasons: if you tell everybody in the world what dangerous substances are on each train, that tells any terrorists which trains to attack for maximum effect.
Please dont light this on fire
Since when do they not tell you what chemicals have leaked before they can evacuate?
The next virus?
This is shortly after the incident. They knew what chemicals were on the train, but they didn't know which, if any, of the derailed cars were leaking. So, at that stage, they didn't know if anything was leaking or, if so, what. And why should they tell you what's leaked? So that people can say, "Oh, it's only chemical X. That's not too bad. I'm not leaving for that."
Infrastructure grade of D-, folks. This is only gonna get worse.
This is what deregulation looks like.
Can Pete answer some questions??
@@cathyr2419 They were rolled back by the previous administration.
@@clueless4085why didn’t they put them back? 😂 butjug at it again
@@clueless4085 K....Where is Mayor Pete now. We are in the current administration for 3 plus years?
@@kenitsanoutragecandia3939 You have the house majority. Did you skip civics?
Oh my goodness really 😮
This is just getting out of control, yes the stakeholders are the big people involved in cutting regulations and saving money to put in their pockets.
How in the world do they not have a manifest sheet or MSDS sheet explaining what possible chemicals could be on each train that is just absolutely irresponsible and out and out should be illegal. 😢
And so now they have no idea what could be leaking in the air as for there's no manifest sheet to howl in the world that how is that even possible that's just ridiculous
Not one word from RR representative on what chemical is leaking?????????? They have records of all cargo product on that train, so why the hell doesn't an official make a media statement cuz your tone of voice making people panic!
They don't know which, if any, of the cars is leaking.
Those are not freight cars they are tank cars. Just like the ones owned by Warren Buffet who lobbied Congress to prevent requirements for a safey device costing $1.50 to prevent derailments.
Tank cars are a kind of freight car, duh.
@beeble2003 Box cars haul freight. Tank cars haul liquid. How are you going to get bulk items thru the valves? Duh.
@@calvinroyals6463 Freight: goods transported in bulk by, e.g., trucks, trains, ships or aircraft. All cargo carried on trains is freight, regardless of whether it's liquid or solid.
@beeble2003 OK, liquid freight and bulk freight. When I was working on tank cars, that's what they were called. Box cars were called freight cars. Who knew you were so sensitive. But I never put 100,000 pounds of liquid in a Box / Freight car.
@@calvinroyals6463 I'm not "sensitive": I'm disagreeing with you. That's two different things.
.....and the railroad operator will be fined tens of dollars.
AGAIN? Large area, long-term evacuations? Railroads need to be proactive about track maintenance and vigilant about car inspections!!
Maybe……. over 100 cars hooked up at a time and the infrastructure? Long train!
When did that stop ?
When reluctant with information, it's dangerous
Execs responsible for causing string line derailments and incompetent staffing practices for number of crew onboard not going to jail = this just keeps happening.
Until the big men at the top see the bottom bunk in a cell, this just repeats again and again.
Not fines. They can pay fines. Jail. Jail is the same price for everyone.
What's your evidence -- or even reason for suspicion -- that the train stringlined?
@@beeble2003 Simply probability and the trending cause behind the increasing number of derailments. Including one that happened two miles from my house last month. We see these trains, dude. They're so absurdly long that OF COURSE stringlines were going to start happening back to back, especially with empty non-pressure tank and centerbeam cars going to and fro, and nobody to trackwalk those absurdly long things before they tour out, picking up extra cars along the way
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing The trend of derailments is _decreasing._ And it sure doesn't look like a stringline derailment -- stringlines are characterized by a bunch of cars on their sides on the inside of a curve.
I live a quarter mile northwest from there and I had no idea this happened.
Sending LOVE and safety to the residents and the Earth.
Thank you my daughter works in Matteson. She was told to go home
Thank you my daughter works in Matteson. She was told to go home
Same company that was responsible for E Palestine, Ohio?
no. East Palestine was Norfolk Southern, this here is Canadian National
Watch the video you might’ve heard which railroad it was
They don't know what happened? It's called negligent maintenance. Where's Buutijug?
dont worry about it. nothing to see here. time for a government bailout and then the ceo to get a big pay increase for skating out of the situation with free taxpayer money.
I hope the EPA does not set it on fire!!!!
You mean the Environmental Polluting Agency!
Why dont they know what in the rail cars? You're supposed to know what you're transporting.
The train company knows. They are not telling the public.
They just don’t want to see what it is, because 99.9% that it is toxic….
The railroad knows. The emergency services know. The reporters don't know. It's not complicated.
I'm a rusty old train coupler and I'm barely hangin' on.
lol
C'mon, man. We have billions for Ukraine.
Mayhem!
The CEOs have been gutting their maintenance departments for decades.
@@1940limited Are you calling for nationalizing the railroads?
Another transportation tragedy
wow. Please be safe everyone in Matteson. I hope any disturbance is at a minimum. 🙏🏽
The railroad corporations could easily solve this problem by spending money to update existing infrastructure but they see the glass as half-full since it costs less to clean up each mess than it is to do the right thing. 🖕
Toto...We arent in Kansas anymore...
Check out the transportation issues the last 3.5 yrs.. where is DEI Pete?? Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
Thank you for letting us know, Suzanne Lemme-Know!
Perfect reporter name.
Seriously, I appreciate your bravery, and please don't get too close.
Imagine that... Another one in the last 2 years... 🤔
For decades there's been over 1,000 train derailments every year. And it's consistent.
@@anthonytwohill9726 But now trains are ridiculously Long and they want to get them down to One operator......what could go wrong?!?!?
@@Denniss7420
Worse yet, the infrastructure is crumbling, and rail roads were deregulated more under Trump, so expect an uptick in derailments.
Remember people it's always more important to give money to the rich than it is to work on our aging infrastructure!!
The community must help each other because the so-called authories arent going to provide proper info or help. Im tired of the People always being the ones to lose in all ways possible.
My prayers are with you in Chicago and East Palestine
I'm from this area. The locals will not be helping each other. They're physically neighbors but there are no communities there. Maybe in the next 20 years or so, but not right now.
@@anthonytwohill9726 I'm sorry to hear that. That's a rough go. :(
@@archmdc370
Oh, FYI, I haven't lived there for quite a long time myself and I don't visit there anymore (last time was about ten years ago). So I guess the neighborhoods could have gotten more chummy since then but I'm doubting it.
Nooooo. My old stomping grounds. Right now those hazmat men are waaaaay too busy for anything. They have to identify each chemical , what sets it off, gas or liquid, what will interact with each other , contaminate risks and areas affected. The metro trains to Chicago may be affected.
"Always remember, regulations that keep the public safe are bad for business and un-American." - Politicians and the billionaires who pay them off.
Chicago has every major rail company go through it…..with intermodals everywhere. Im surprised this doesnt happen more often. Worst off all the downtowns in suburbs have tracks going through it. DISASTER is not IF but WHEN
Why is this happening! Why evacuations?! This is maddening!
Every year for the past ten we get about 1300 derailments. There were thousands more each year prior to that. In 1978 there were 9,400 derailments and about 7000 in 1976.
Train derailments have gone down hugely since the 1970s.
Hugely huh? Would you care to comment on the severity of the derailment then vs now?
@@TheGoldenV-bl9pj
Sure. Similar toxicity levels but there was a much smaller population than today, so far fewer people were negatively effected. Also, the smaller population we DID have waa spread out far more. Roughly 80% of US citizens today live in or very near large cities.
So you can look at it this way: not only has train derailments gone down drastically by nominal numbers, train derailments per capita are virtually non existent relative to the 1970s.
Peace out.
Lots of disasters involving our infrastructure, impeccable timing regarding everything happening around the world.
Build back better seems to be working well
derp
It takes time to correct decades of neglect. I wish it were otherwise.
There is visible progress in my area. Bridges are getting fixed.
There’s needs to be new fra law that limits freight trains to a certain number of cars. We’ve seen time and time again that the longer these freight trains get, the more likely a wreck is to occur. They should be limited to around 100 cars and no more in my opinion
Our infrastructure is disgraceful.
Iran needs more money.
Very disgraceful, considering America hauls more tonnage by railway then any other country....semi trucks all over in medians and ditches threw Missouri leaking loads ...that's okay though???
Folks, we don’t yet know what failed to cause this derailment, however in general these incidents are why we have regulations for companies to follow. It just pisses me off that the GOP wants to remove all sorts of regulations, which have been put into place for the safety of communities and workers. True that some regulations cut into companies profit margins but citizens, communities and worker safety takes precedence over profit margin levels.
Why do you always blame one party we are a 2 party system either party can write laws regulations and the last 7-8 Dems have had majority so really they are all responsible. Both parties get $$$$ from these lobbyists
@@marcienicholson3051one writes laws, the other blocks them. Pretty simple pattern to recognize
@@datboib3432 that’s true of both parties
Just intime for pete to have another kid.
Are they going to Ignite it in order to stop it from Igniting? (Ohio).
National safety issue isn’t it?
What is the govt. up to?
No Good.....as usual
Stopping fueling the wars in Europe and Mideast, spend the money to improve the infrastructure back home.
If any vinyl chloride, please do NOT set it on fire.
Sue the railroads. They are not keeping up the rails.
Matteson is actually just a lil bit more than 40 mins from Chicago, it's actually a suburb of Chicago.
E Palestine proved cost cutting puts everyone in danger. 🙄
Wonder how fast Team Blue will be to respond to this one now that it's hitting closer to home. So much for infrastructure, eh?
If any of you had the slightest idea what trains haul on a daily basis EVERYWHERE you'd move FAR FAR AWAY from any railroad tracks
No way 😢
The Waverly TN derailment in 1978 had 2 LPG rail tank cars, among the derailment, that they decided to lift up & move while full, before they were going to offload the LPG to highway tankers. Just after moving one of the tankers, it ruptured, then burned explosively. 16 people were killed.
Burning off propane/LPG like this is safe, it's nothing like vinyl chloride.
Dont forget that the independent impact reports have just come out about the vinyl cholride incompetence disaster, and how it has definitely reached several other states that were nowhere near the derailment.
Loaded like a freight train flying like an aeroplane feeling like a space brain one more time tonight
Not again …. Come on America 🇺🇸 we need to get it together already
Even if they can't tell you what's on board, there's labels that say what kind of hazard it is marked on the outside, like corrosive, flammable, etc
Would love to know how long the train was and if DPUs were involved 🚂
No DPU
Must be some serious stuff, when they act like they know enough to tell you what to do but not enough to be specific. They clearly are getting their stories straight before they decide to give out information.
What happened to investigative journalism? That's freedom American style
@@shambalkaran9258 It's really hard to do investigative journalism only a couple of hours after the event...
They know what's on the train. They don't, however, know which, if any, of the cars are leaking. They don't want to announce what maybe, possibly, could be leaking, because that is likely to cause panic.
"Railroad tracks and rights-of-way in the United States are typically owned and maintained by the individual railroad companies that operate on them. Each railroad company is responsible for maintaining its own tracks, bridges, signals, and other infrastructure to ensure safe and efficient operation of their trains."
Wheres Sweet Pete
We need rules that require the trains to slow down.
Why? Speed is almost never an issue in these derailments.
It was going less than 15 and people want to shoot train crews who hold them up more than 10 seconds at a crossing.
Here we go again
Railroad companies look at the cost of maintaining the right of way and making sure they have proper train crews, vs. a few pesky derailments, and decide our safety and the safety of the crews are not important.
Glad we sent 100 billion for Ukrain instead of infrastructure
Glad you know what happened before anyone else does
Looks like Trump's multiple infrastructure weeks never materialized, but Biden's infrastructure bill did.
We don't send money to Ukraine, we send weapons. That are Made in America. Which keeps Americans working. 😊
Don't burn it
Shouldn't the owners of that train be the first on-site rather than the media?
Well, first, the media are just a few miles away; the railroad is a national corporation. Second, there is no single "owner of the train". The track and the locomotives are owned by one particular railroad. Most of the cars on any freight train are owned by other companies. Furthermore, because of what's called the "common carrier" status of most railroads, the railroad can't refuse to transport any freight car, as long as it passes a basic safety inspection and its load is properly documented.
For the Inspectors to go into a situation like this is like a suicide mission. A car could explode without notice. Pray for those experts and may God bless you all.
Are we built back better yet?
Our rail system is a total loss at this point
Another?
Yeah. Every year for the past ten we get about 1300 derailments. There were thousands more each year prior to that. In 1978 there were 9,400 derailments and about 7000 in 1976.
Train derailments have gone down hugely since the 1970s.
How in heck is this kinda stuff still happening. After the last train wreck in Ohio
Capitalism and a bought off government.
Because we had to spend resources on non Americans and arresting trump
First a bridge…(ship)disrupts shipping lane😮 now train disrupts railway train hub🙄
Another train derailed? who's responsible for their safety I wonder?
Luckily no one was hurt, but the Fat controller was VERY cross.
Fat hat: "You have cause confusing and delay!"
He said pointing at the engine.
Fat hat: "To avoid causing a mass panic we shall have to cover this whole incident all up and you shall be sent to the other railway at once!"
Putin must be held responsible for this atrocity!
Is there a rail infrastructure problem? Why so many trains derailing?