West Virginia train derailment leaks diesel and oil

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21. There are something like

~1500 a year, every year. I don't believe there has been any kind of statistically significant increases lately but I have not done a deep dive.

Derailments are the hot news item of the day after the disaster in East Palestine so the media will run with it for awhile until something else takes its place and then you won't hear about derailments on the national stage for years if not decades.


This is not to say we can't make improvements to our rail system. But derailments have always been and will always be an issue and any system put in place to eliminate them would make rail travel impossible.