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thisusedyet t1_j8xbwir wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Michigan derailment: No hazardous material spilled in second rail crash by batmaninwonderland

There is, but again, due to lack of personnel & doing stock buybacks instead of maintenance

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Mrchristopherrr t1_j8y0h20 wrote

That video is heavily misleading- it’s from almost 10 years ago showing rails that had been abandoned for around 30 before that. They’ve since been repaired.

Adding on that the footage is shot to make the rails much more bendy than they are and is sped up and slowed down to exaggerate the effects.

No major rail lines look like that.

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thisusedyet t1_j8y5mvu wrote

See, the first time I saw that was a couple days ago, and all that context was missing. Somebody linked to a newer upload of that, and all it said was ‘rails in Ohio / Indiana’. My bad for not looking into it, just searched for ‘Ohio wiggly rails’ to find it again because I thought that was relevant

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[deleted] t1_j8xdjdc wrote

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thisusedyet t1_j8xhaz3 wrote

Lack of personnel because they’re cutting back on payroll, not because they can’t hit some quota

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feral_brick t1_j90di17 wrote

First they turned the frogs gay and now the gay frogs are taking our jehrbs

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PatWithTheStrat t1_j8xdz5e wrote

None of that really matters if our infrastructure is falling apart anyways

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