Comments by "William Burke" (@cornholio812) on "CRAZY TRAIN! The Norfolk Southern Derailment in East Palestine Ohio is a Classic Coverup" video.

  1. The amount of money could not possibly have been adequate. So, predictably, they spent it instead on executive salaries and a giant glass and steel skyscraper in Atlanta. The amount of money required to redo the eastern seaboard's rails is beyond staggering. To do it right, anyway. The raid beds need to be redone from the ground up; the rails themselves are but a tiny part of the problem. We need to stop pretending the problem isn't critical to our nation's economy - it absolutely is. We need a national conversation on this problem - and the American people need to be told how severe the problem is, and just how much it will cost us to do it the right way. Much of the rail bed system in the east is roughly a century old. When it was first installed the cost was cheap. It doesn't appear it will ever be cheap again, does it?
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  2.  @itsmatt2105  Certainly that's a very real part of the problem.
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  3.  @off_Planet  BINGO.
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  4.  @bigpoppa3020  How many rail workers does it take to drive one train engine? Now, if your freight trail has multiple engines (which actually isn't rare) you need one per engine. It would be great to have two per engine, I admit.
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  5. That's what they know how to do best. I mean worst.
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  6. Styx, the problem is primarily that the rail infrastructure in the eastern U.S. is in really poor condition. In many areas the tracks are deemed unsafe for travel over 35-40 mph. AMTRAK suffers the same problems in the same region. The rail beds need to be redone from the ground up, a project that would take untold billions, perhaps a trillion dollars to achieve. Where is the money going to come from? I think only the federal government can afford to do this level of work, and it would mean doing away with most of the defense budget to do so. Where is the manpower to do it? I say bring all the troops home and put them to work on the eastern railroad infrastructure - but most of them don't want to do that kind of hard manual labor - they're SOLDIERS, after all, and sailors and what have you. Also, what happens to the vital freight the raid carry - coal, primarily, when much of the raid system is shut down for a total rebuild? WE NEED A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON THIS SUBJECT, and we need it decades ago!
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