Juan Browne Reading the Preliminary NTSB Report on the Derailment in East Palestine, Ohio
You can see the report from the NTSB here.
The list of tank cars at 15:00 is from the EPA spreadsheet here. It's not explicit what order the cars were but that seems to be given by the Line # showing that the Vinyl Chloride was in cars 28-31 and 55, as per the NTSB report. This whole section of the train is a nightmare! See my question: "Is it standard practice to mix hazardous materials with explosive hazardous materials in the same train?" The answer seems to be "Yes". From Wikipedia: "Of those [150 or 151, depending on the source] cars, 20 were carrying hazardous materials, including chloroethene (vinyl chloride), butyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, isobutylene, combustible liquids, and benzene residue."
Here is the Wikipedia page on Defect Detectors. Apparently these produced a large number of false positive reports entailing costly delays which prompted changes in the system from the early 2000s.
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Here's a detailed comment by Nathan Pitts explaining the compressed air braking system on trains:
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Amy Goodman interviewing Matthew Cunningham-Cook on more of the background to the disaster:
See this summary from The Lever: Driving The Narrative. Feb 20, 2023.
At 16:00 the procedure they had for approval of the "controlled burn" is looking very interesting! See EPA Head Michael Regan Visits East Palestine, Ohio.
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