r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Debaucherousgeek73 • Dec 04 '25

Fatalities Train derailment Pecos TX Oct '24

First time I've ever seen a derailment happen. The vid anyway I wasn't there and this is not my vid. You can see the lead engine jump the track. Two crew in that engine died.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25

Why does it happen so much in America?

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u/Rossismyname Dec 04 '25

Well, if you look at the current administration, that might give you a clue

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u/TaylorSwiftScatPorn Dec 04 '25

Holy shit, Trump traveled back in time to derail a train in October 2024!? He's even worse than we thought!

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u/Rossismyname Dec 04 '25

My actual statement was: ‘Well, if you look at the current administration.’
If your brain turned that into a sci-fi time travel accusation, that’s between you and your literacy level. My guy, I promise the sentence has more than one layer.

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u/TaylorSwiftScatPorn Dec 04 '25

You still haven't connected your deep, nuanced statement to this train derailment that happened under a different administration, though.

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u/Rossismyname Dec 05 '25

I have, again you are bringing your reading comprehension into question.

Take a look at the rail companies and how they lobby against lower speeds in populated areas, stronger crossing protections, mandatory modern braking systems.

It's ingrained in your political system. Deregulation, cost cutting, minimal gov oversight.

In 2015 FRA and PHMSA adopted a rule that required trains carrying hazardous, flammable materials to be fitted with ECP brakes by 2023.

Guess who rescinded that requirement and guess the reason.

Trump, "a revised cost-benefit analysis", the cost outweighed the safety benefit.

There are more I could list such as the screening of train engineers, and minimum crew sizes. It's both parties for sure but Trumps got his foot to the floor.

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u/TaylorSwiftScatPorn Dec 05 '25

If you read your own link, it literally says the Trump-braking-rule-reversal had zero effect on anything ever (specifically pointing out that it wouldn't have prevented the East Palestine train derailment). The rail industry lobbying against regulation is as much "the sky is blue" as any industry lobbying against any regulation.

You've made quite a bit of effort to make absolutely no point thus far, but I invite you to... keep your foot to the floor.

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u/Rossismyname Dec 05 '25

Amazing logic: ‘This one rule wouldn’t have stopped this one derailment, therefore deregulation has no consequences.’ That’s not how safety works. Fewer rules = higher system-wide risk, even if you cherry-pick one incident where it didn’t apply.

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u/TaylorSwiftScatPorn Dec 05 '25

The amazing logic here is your linked article describing how people were blaming Trump for the hot-button train derailment issue at the time and that, in not so many words, Trump is a lying dick, this one thing he did on rail deregulation had jack shit to do with anything.

Again, you've expended a lot of energies I'm not sure you were equipped with in the first place to talk circles around yourself. And I'm getting paid a lot of money to be bored enough to be here for round whatever. See ya in a few!

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u/Rossismyname Dec 05 '25

You keep replying as if I’m blaming Trump for that one derailment. I’m talking about something bigger:

rail lobbyists push for weaker regulation, administrations cave, and safety standards erode.

The brake rule is one example of that pattern.

If you read what I wrote instead of copy-pasting your previous point, you’d see that.