Why so many Norfolk train derailments? | National Report
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GUNS N GEAR
Let’s be honest, Folks. The rail industry is after one thing and one thing only: MAX PROFITS. To blazes with safety (“wide gauging”) workers’ safety, and indeed, America’s safety.
The East Palestine train that derailed did pass within two miles of my place here in Ohio. Rail tracks here are pitiful: splayed out rails way past specs, timbers rotting, gravel beds washed away by rains and floods, and some of the RRY bridges here–well over a century old and never seen any maintenance–not even a coat of rust preventive paint.
The railroad boys have a strong and powerful lobby at our statehouse and Mordor on the Potomac passing around the “mother’s milk of politics,” cash money.
PS Why did attorney-at-law, one “Abe Lincoln,” in the 1850s work for the railroads, where he earned astounding sums of cash ($5,000 for one case, worth $193,000,00 in 2023) as trial court “defense counsel” for railroads? Simple: follow the cash:
“Lincoln was already an experienced railroad lawyer when he accepted the case. From 1852 to 1860, he handled cases for the Illinois Central. Three times as an attorney for the Alton & Sangamon Railroad, he won cases that eventually came before the U.S. Supreme Court.”
https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/51a319bce67b7f5614886cd3a4504ef7.pdf