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that the Federal Railroad Administration's Office of Railroad Safety and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration had staff on the ground to aid the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation within hours of the derailment.
But there’s not much muscle behind the Federal Railroad Administration and other regulatory agencies that report to Buttigieg. As of 2013, according to, the Federal Railroad Administration’s inspectors had “the ability to annually inspect less than 1 percent of the railroad activities covered in regulation. As a result, railroads have the primary responsibility for safety of the railroad system.”
Not surprisingly, the railroad industry has been completely fine with this system, and has lobbied against attempts to increase regulation. According to, in 2017 Norfolk Southern wrote to the Trump administration in 2017, requesting that the Transportation Department roll back “a requirement on new electronic braking technology on trains carrying large volumes of hazardous flammable liquids.”
Norfolk Southern also cut positions that “oversaw maintenance of equipment detectors that issue alerts if something is wrong in the track, including hot boxes that measure wheel bearing temperatures,” Christopher Hand, director of research at the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, told the Post. The suggested that an overheated axle helped lead to the derailment, and that the issue went undetected despite passing several sensors ahead of the one that finally alerted the crew.
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