Another Norfolk Southern Freight Train Derails Near Springfield Ohio

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Train derailments are pretty common, around 1,000 per year in the US. Fortunately most are not newsworthy. https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/summary.aspx
Been There said:
Someone put a penny on the tracks?
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When I was a kid a policeman caught me putting pennies on railroad tracks. He told me it would cause a derailment, I believed him... for a little while.

Will Placing a Penny on the Tracks Derail a Train?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/train-penny-derail/
 
Alligatorob said:
Train derailments are pretty common, around 1,000 per year in the US. Fortunately most are not newsworthy. https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/summary.aspx

When I was a kid a policeman caught me putting pennies on railroad tracks. He told me it would cause a derailment, I believed him... for a little while.

Will Placing a Penny on the Tracks Derail a Train?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/train-penny-derail/
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When I was a kid, we had tracks going through part of the back portion of the farm. The trains really didn’t have a schedule, I don’t think , except on Saturday and Sunday when a train would come through between 6 and 6:30. Any other day, we didn’t know when a train was coming. Usually, they didn’t go fast at all.
 
Alligatorob said:
I am not even sure how that works. The railroad companies own a minority of the cars, those mostly belong to the big shippers or companies that rent cars to shippers. Not clear to me who is responsible for the maintenance.

https://www.railserve.com/stats_records/freight_railcar_owners.html
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That's scary. It's no wonder there are so many derailments. But Northern Railroad made a public statement that they were going to add more heat sensors on the railcars, so does that only apply to the cars they own? Hmmmm...
 

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