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[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Norfolk Southern has a police department?!

Archived video: https://pomf2.lain.la/f/e3o7flov.mp4

This video listed the first company Norfolk Southern was using as CTEH. The five people that died in a plane crash in Arkansas were employees of CTEH on their way to Ohio!

[–]MularkeyMan2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Norfolk Southern hired them, not the EPA.

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One explanation which I do not agree with, for why Norfolk Southern ignited the chemicals: to quickly resume train shipments. That does not make sense to me. After the explosion, the debris and materials would still have to be removed from the tracks. The explosion they caused did not make the trash and cars disappear. The stuff still had to be physically moved out of the way.

Would it not be easier to remove empty train cars from the tracks without igniting an explosion? Instead of emptying the chemicals into a ditch three days after the derailment, why didn't Norfolk Southern transfer the chemicals to other containers and remove everything safely from the tracks?