I get that, but at the heart of the matter is that they’re not prepared…that’s it, they haven’t got their chickens in row, they have created policy, defined terms, and they certainly haven’t written a training manual so their orders can be followed.
So yes chaos is their preferred method of governing, and the people that get ruined along the way mean nothing to them.
RRs have detectors to pick up both dragging equipment and temperature anomalies. This should have been caught long before the video.
But there was a day when brakemen and conductors rode at the back of a train so that they could see, or smell problems like this train experienced in Ohio.
12 or so miles from the spill, thankfully. Looking at video of the truck rig and knowing it was carrying nitric acid… it seems to me the containment was waaay substandard. It’s a very corrosive acid. The cops and others “mitigated” the spill by shoveling dirt on it which is far from the right thing to do but in the moment it was all they had. The right move would be raising the ph with a slightly diluted base. Then collecting alla that contaminated soil and heading for our landfill. Had that wreck happened another 10 miles west it would have been in range of downtown Tucson and affected a serious number of people.
Slo-Walking Garland has been dragging his feet for reasons that are not readily apparent to anyone but Garland. It’s anyone’s guess as to why that is, so I’m not surprised that people are drawing inferences and possible answers.
I can tell you this, there are no good reasons I can think of other than he may be paying close attention to the real threats coming from the MAGA cult should he indict Trump and associates. If that is the case, he needs to step aside quickly and give that responsibility to someone else because it’s creating bigger problems for the rest of the country; problems that might be impossible to recover from later.