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Pyroechidna1 t1_j94vclf wrote

Hotboxes have always been a thing. People jumped on this incident as a chance to grab the media spotlight and complain about PSR. It wasn’t a direct act of negligence like Lac Megantic was.

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dgroach27 t1_j95vwxj wrote

Didn’t Norfolk Southern cut their workforce and not update their brakes? Accidents happen but just explaining away this situation with that completely ignores the explicit decisions made by Norfolk Southern that increased the chance of this happening.

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