#bombtrain — Public Fediverse posts
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Almost no one knows this, but last June, a 90-car train got away from its crew in #Hernando, MO, rolling three miles through two public crossings, a ghost train that included *47* potentially explosive propane cars. The #BombTrain neither crashed nor derailed, which meant that #GrenadaRailroad/#GulfAndAtantic didn't have to report it.
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The U.S. rail industry has created what amounts to a sacrifice zone “lottery”. The odds of your town getting hit by a bomb train are low, but eventually someone will have the “winning” ticket. It was never a question of whether this would happen, but of when.
That’s why I think it’s appropriate to think of this as an attack carried out for money.
There was no question that this was going to happen. It had already been happening, and yet the United States Government was so pathetically weak before the corporations, that it couldn’t even require and update to braking systems from the 1800s.
#EastPalestine #Ohio #NorfolkSouthern #BombTrain #Derailment #capitalism #deregulation #greed
