Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

The Krink wrote:

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incident in Quebec where negligence by one
employee let a whole oil train run downhill for 10 miles
before destroying a town. Its such a "whole different story"

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 Even Krink buys into the government/corporate propaganda of "Blame the Employee". That one employee was tasked with a near impossible job by a brokedick company that should never have been allowed to operate a railroad was operating a railroad with the blessing of the government where they were operating.

It also ignores the lack of fundamental mechanical training and the critical mistakes of the railroad representative who worked with the fire department. It was the action of shitting down and restarting the locomotives that actually caused the air bake release that caused the train to start moving. This lack of training goes through the core of every American class 1, tu. Whole different story in the US?

As far as a "whole different story" in US on the Bigs, they have proven that is bullshit, too. Every one of them has had their "lucky conflagration". Even after their lucky streak, they have had to have been led kicking and screaming down the path of rudimentary safety practices that get between the fat cats and their money.

Monopolies and duopolies don't act like normal companies. A normal company would have seen the black gold revolution as the fundamental change and welcomed and focused on gaining more of it. These duopolies just started off treating the new business like every other commodity and customer until they started blowing shit up time after time after time. The arrogance of "we were here first" until and when they fuck up a big American city isn't going to fly. I personally think these Class 1's have it coming to them.

The public should be appalled at the way these companies are run. Without their special blessings, secret dealings, power and good old fashioned luck, they would be shut down tomorrow. Would you fly on BNSF Airlines? Snippy wouldn't want LAMCO Airlines flying within a hundred miles of Snippylvania and would never voluntarily board one of their planes that was going to attempt a takeoff.