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Pyroechidna1 t1_j94t8e5 wrote

Reply to comment by dgroach27 in Let's make this guy famous. by pra_com001

Railroads are common carriers. They don’t have the option to not haul vinyl chloride if customers need it moved.

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NativeSon508 t1_j95r0jm wrote

We could move it through pipe lines but we all know how evil pipelines are!

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dgroach27 t1_j94uvof wrote

They have the option to ensure that the rails and the trains are operating as safely as possible which they did not do. There were many people who have been saying for years that an accident like this was inevitable because of actions rail companies were taking.

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Pyroechidna1 t1_j94vclf wrote

Hotboxes have always been a thing. People jumped on this incident as a chance to grab the media spotlight and complain about PSR. It wasn’t a direct act of negligence like Lac Megantic was.

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dgroach27 t1_j95vwxj wrote

Didn’t Norfolk Southern cut their workforce and not update their brakes? Accidents happen but just explaining away this situation with that completely ignores the explicit decisions made by Norfolk Southern that increased the chance of this happening.

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