'Why Were You Not Able To Stop The Train?': Ted Cruz Grills Norfolk CEO On Ohio Train Derailment

[@shippsdip]

The fact they didnt stop it. Shows complete incompetence.

[@douglemay7989]

Nah, Trump's fault, like the bank failure.

[@rctezluh42069]

they were hoping it would make it

[@hotrod8915]

Or it's intentional.

[@hotrod8915]

​@Hwks lolz. I said the same. Great minds ...

[@phitsf5475]

The fact they went on to deliberately set it on fire. Shows even lower competence

[@bobrohrer2501]

I am sick and tired of listening to people who will not answer questions. What the hell is the merit of more hot box detectors if nobody does anything with the info they deliver

[@kingforaday8725]

Like any bureaucracy they can claim they did something. Wether or not it helps is pushed to the next incident!

[@sprawlingman8277]

This is yet another example of the corruption that capitalism has created.

[@raymondmartucci2049]

Get used to it that's how democrats work when they are confronted

[@corona61868]

What the hell is the merit of Congress if they do nothing but act tough in hearings and then look the other way while nothing changes

[@m.w.2979]

@@corona61868 it is the same all over , a lot of theater to justify their positions ....and when it is all over nothing changes....

[@steveyeager6177]

"Thank you for your question Mr Senator. Let me talk around the answer for 2 minutes without giving anything relating to your question"

[@TreeLBollingTreeMan]

Standard operating procedure

[@Scott-ly2nk]

That is that ever happens in any of these hearings the samething with mayorkas they just stall and lie and time runs out and everyone calls it a day no one is ever held accountable for perjury they just come back at a later date and do the same bullshit with a different congressman or senator the same lies and stalls then they are done then another wave comes etc Nothing ever happens

[@TM-xz2kj]

"So you're refusing to answer the question?"

[@brianfitzpatrick1183]

Thank you for that question seems to be a prelude to a word salad that goes nowhere near the question

[@cloudshe]

i will never understand the "thank you for your question" bulls**t

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Finding a truth teller is miraculous

[@plasticoflamingo2952]

Wait a minute... the guy who represents the people who actually work on the train crews knows more about the workings of the trains than the corporate cocktail party clowns that spend their time getting drunk and playing golf? Who would have thought? More and more, it would seem that corporate management is the biggest problem in every industry.

[@kennethnevel3263]

That is always the problem when they never started at the bottom and worked their way up to the top . They never know how things should be done .

[@erinfinch1832]

He was whistle blowing. Good for him. Hope they don't retaliate against that guy

[@Jason2003]

That's why they need to hold the company accountable. Show these companies they will be punished for their purely profit driven behavior if it hurts people. Throw some bankers in jail just to be sure.

[@Jeannelawes]

@@erinfinch1832 Or invite him onto the board ! (to turn him into their way of thinking)

[@ventedvoice]

Relying on someone else's ego entirely, in this case corporate management, is never a good thing to do.

[@johnnyfreak6806]

Norfolk southern Ohio train crash was organized and needs to be investigated NOT by Norfolk southern, but an outside investigative team

[@cherylsims5636]

Thats why the NTSB is investigating

[@freedomfan4272]

Lots of people believe big events in past was organized like 9/11 and Sanky hook

[@williamsych2537]

Didn't they film a Netflix movie about a year before the train derailment in that same town with some of the towns citizens also in it. Believe in the movie the train was carrying some chemicals.

[@jessiegustin8278]

Agreed

[@m.w.2979]

@@williamsych2537 the name of the movie is " White noise" it is on line , free

[@pamelagetz4550]

WOW! Looks like someone was not doing their JOB! Bottom line. Someone has to be held accountable for this!

[@hotrod8915]

Only Christians and Trump voters are investigated and prosecuted.

[@rosreaviemore727]

Not a chance.

[@laurajacques3238]

Ignorance is ramped! 🤥😵‍💫🤯🤢🤮 Mr. Cruz, You tried to get a comprehensive answer. So far all we continuing to get is diversion from accountability and transparency in truthes.😢

[@michaelatkin9649]

Cruz isn't holding their feet to the fire. Cruz does this kinda shit alot

[@douglemay7989]

@@michaelatkin9649 He keeps trying to win that Oscar.

[@Obscured1972]

So if there's a mechanical problem on a train, sensors send a message to somebody in an office somewhere and then that person decides if the actual crew should get a heads up? That's the dumbest thing ever. He's right, it's all about moving those trains and safety will have to be content hanging out in the backseat

[@shadowbeast2276]

That's the logic of a railroad system that is driven on the philosophy "time is money & money is all that matters to us"

[@williamjohnson5161]

Deregulation is a big boy word Ted just can't say, also you know it's a friendly witness when Teddy forgets his yelling shtick 😮😮

[@CentronGreave]

​@Zachary Brown conductor here, that is not accurate. In most of the territory I've operated on, the defect detectors only audibly announce, via radio, if the defect is dragging equipment. There are, at most, only 1 detector per subdivision that is other than talk on entry and defect only. All other alerts are filtered through train management and dispatchers.

[@RogerThat1945]

It is Unbelievable; and there could be a reason it is Unbelievable. Perhaps because it is a lie.

[@nightcruiser99]

No, the cew hears it on the radio,as soon as the detector goes off.

[@foff64]

Who else is sick and tired of the lies and the disgusting way they handle this terrorist activity

[@bartsimpson8616]

only those 15 people 16 with you , i be 17th

[@TheHarberHangar]

If the temp-trend report goes to an office somewhere, there IS real-time reporting technology already. There is NO technological reason that data cannot be sent to the conductor on the train, and that is the ONLY person who absolutely NEEDS the info. Not some "remote monitor" somewhere saying "keep the train moving".

[@johnschuh8616]

An extra link in the chain of command. That has lost more than one war. If the radar men at Pearl Harbor ben able to sound the alarm, some P-40s would have been able to rise to the occasion. Instead some lazy Lt with no eyeball knowledge made the decision.

[@slipperywhenwet668]

Did you like the sound clips you did not understand?

[@donnaturner4795]

Exactly...

[@johnschuh8616]

@@slipperywhenwet668 When company men start talking fast, it is because they are trying to slip the noose. My uncle worked for the Missouri Pacific from the 20s to the fifties.

[@kennethnevel3263]

The detectors need to radio the thain crew , they are the ones that need know right away , not the office .

[@r.campfire8300]

And that lady's and gentleman is the reason why corporations around the world have catastrophic failures. They want to squeeze every penny of profit they can out of their systems at the expense of everybody's safety. Imagine taking away all of an airplane pilot's gauges and requiring him to rely on a remote worker, who has been given 100 planes to monitor, to tell him the status of all systems on board the aircraft.

[@robertsmith2956]

You could probably end 90% of plane crashes having the auto pilot watch the pilot not fly the plane. Just like your Tom Tom. BING, why are you flying on the side, and not upright? DING, why are you pointing the nose at the sun? DING, why are you landing with the wheels retracted?

[@toddkump9902]

Maybe remote safety sensors just for planes carrying these CEOs… 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@RealPackCat]

Could you imagine the same attitude during an airline flight? Pilot to Tower: Sir, there is a fire in the #1,#2, and #4 engines, and there is a hole in the fuselage, what should we do? Tower: Keep flying and appreciate the fuel savings and free air conditioning... We cannot let you make an emergency landing and tie up air traffic.

[@georgepotter353]

So everything worked as designed. I guess he's saying it was designed to do nothing, resulting a the crash.

[@swilliams937]

And it was certainly nothing that a little burn off couldn't fix. 🤣

[@DrCarlo]

Like most big Corprs they are hesitant to spend the money needed to fix the problems...

[@robertsmith2956]

or like most big corporations the unions wont let them. You have to give them the money.

[@RealPackCat]

Take away their insurance and make them accountable and their entire attitude will change.

[@marcsappington419]

It was planned chaos by the WEF globalist lizard people

[@pamelagetz4550]

That gentleman hit the nail on the head. Just keep pushing the train through.😢

[@richardcohen2283]

Someone in headquarters knew there was a problem with the train but didn't signal the crew? Who is someone??

[@sallysullivan4463]

Proud of your determination to get your answer ! Keep up the pressure to get a truthful answer. This is a Nationwide problem that has to be brought under control !👍

[@TxDragon55]

Everyone by now should know that when someone starts their testomy with, "Thank you Senitor for that question" they are about to lie as so they can dance around the question and not get caught in their lies.

[@SeymourBalz]

If I can drive a big truck and have the scale house signal me a pass, why can't these hot boxes signal the train directly ? I assure you there are more individual trucks than trains.

[@susanjefferson9560]

It should have to check the train! This man is right!

[@Reepicheep-1]

Real-time reporting to operators has been the norm for boats/planes/cars for generations. Inexcusable the RRs don't have it.

[@carolcharters4878]

They do have it...but it failed apparently

[@robertsmith2956]

I wonder if he worked on the space shuttles. They also lied to the astronauts about the craft. Everything is AOK, nothing a little more rocket engine can't fix,..... Then when out of fuel, the KYAGB sign lights up.

[@fayceoff]

Even if an airplane pilot realizes there's a problem, they're not allowed to just land wherever they think they should, right? They have to check with ground control. Same with trains. We get a notification, we call dispatch (who has access to that same sensor info), and they tell us where we can stop. Usually it's somewhere that other trains can get past/around us, because it could take an hour or more to find walk from the locomotive back to the bad bearing or dragging equipment or whatever.

[@guyintenn]

@@fayceoff Once a pilot declares an emergency the ATC is only there to assist. It is the pilots decision to land, if possible, wherever they feel they can. The ATC responsibilities at that point are to give the aircraft having the emergency as clear of an airspace as is possible (divert other traffic), inform the pilot of the closet airport (sometimes even the closet highway), inform other ATC's whose airspace may be affected, and alert emergency services once the pilot or radar has determined the touchdown/crash location. So once an emergency is declared, "ground control" or ATC, will not tell the pilot what to do, only inform them of the closest airports or other places a pilot may land.

[@fayceoff]

@CH Mullins Then I guess rail dispatch and ATC are totally different. Maybe because the rails are private property... I don't know. I guess that wasn't a very good comparison. But like I said - we generally can't just stop our trains without notifying dispatch even if we get a detector alarm.

[@sven8633]

Nail these corporations hard.

[@tommycapps9903]

Why does it ALWAYS take repeating the same question several times before you can get an answer from witnesses?

[@raymondreid4987]

Let's ask the right questions. Why was a train car full of flammable liquid left beside the tracks?

[@paulmasterson386]

Ted Cruz absolutely nailed it with his question. I am a retired railway conductor and you should always stop and check if you get a hot axle box alert. It didn’t happen because railway controllers demand that the train keeps going to avoid delaying following trains. In the UK our train crews have the right to decide for themselves safety issues like this. It would seem train crews in the USA do not have,and that needs to change. Axle box detectors are able to detect which vehicle on the train has caused the problem,unfortunately due to the huge length of trains in the USA it takes a long time for the crew to walk down the train and find out if there’s a problem. In the UK crew have a temperature stick which they can put on a suspected hot axle box, if it melts you’ve got a problem it’s as simple as that.

[@Tina-mt9cl]

Do you have more than one train company in the UK or are all the tracks and trains owned by the same corporation like here in the USA? Our government here is supposed to break up monopolies for reasons exactly such as these current events but instead they just push the monopoly to unionize and if they do then they accept $millions in donations from said union and leave them alone. On the other hand if they don't unionize the government is not so nice... Norfolk Southern is a unionized company.... Unions need to be outlawed in this country plain & simple.

[@tobiasobermayr501]

put an ebike in the train and drive down the train

[@TreeLBollingTreeMan]

​@@Tina-mt9cl Please get you information correct! There are about 630 different railroad companies in America and America’s freight railroads are almost entirely privately owned and operated. Unlike trucks and barges, freight railroads operate overwhelmingly on infrastructure they own, build, maintain and pay for themselves. .

[@johnschuh8616]

Men who do not work with their hands have a blind faith in EASY technical fixes.

[@rebeccapadilla8806]

The

[@johnclark1741]

If the detector can signal headquarters it can signal the crew... Ted, you got smoke blown up your backside...

[@douglemay7989]

Which will just result in more hot air from Cancun Cruz.

[@fayceoff]

The detectors do signal the Cree. But the crew has to get permission from dispatch to stop the train.

[@cloudshe]

@@douglemay7989 so you're comfortable with the lies we are fed should the Ted Cruz's of our Country be gagged?

[@douglemay7989]

@@cloudshe Cruz has never seen a regulation that he did not want repealed. He is just a reich wing noise maker. I want him to stand for something besides Trump and the NRA.

[@awr2024]

The detectors don't tell the crew everything the major readout goes to the dispatch center. " The back room ".

[@ryanlynch3579]

Thats very interesting he said running at 100°C is within their specs. This is generally true for bearings(when I say generally its because of the massive amount of various types with varied specifications). But 100°C is definitely at the upper limit. You don't want to be running any mechanical system at its max capability. Usually things are over engineered/built to be running at 80 or 70, 90%, etc. so you have a buffer against catastrophic failure. Thus seems a bit odd they're ok with a system operating at its max physical limits. It just doesnt seem in line with what's called FoS, or safety factor, in industry.

[@RealPackCat]

in America °F is used... a rough estimate is to subtract 32 and divide by 2. so 100 °F is approximately 37.778 °C. Boiling water is 212 °F, which is 100 °C, which is also probably how they came up with °C in the first place. (0 °C being freezing and 100 °C being boiling temperature)

[@thekilomike6012]

Did they say C temp ? I just heard numbers given.

[@1elk]

This would have never happened if they still used cabooses on the end of the train, that conductor would have smelled the problem and shut the train down to be checked. Many trains have been saved because of someone smelling a fire or the brakes and bearings overheating.

[@brendaann727]

The human touch is important! Wouldn't have happened either if the seasoned workers who checked the undercarriages, etc.. at every stop hadn't been let go when the strikes were forced to end. Better to err on the side of safety but it seems they chose money. My dad taught me to always check my vehicle regularly when using it to see if anything is amiss. At least twice I avoided a huge blow-out on the road when I saw the bad place in the tires while parked.

[@qgc3426]

The same thing happened to a CSX train in Baltimore years ago. Lesson here is it doesn’t matter if you have the tech to spot problems if no one does anything about it.

[@robertbiolsi9815]

And around and around we go

[@AHD2105]

He's promoting the industries safety and not answering the question!? Why would you not just stop and check if it's risen that quickly. Oh coz the industry is time sensitive😮!!

[@Tank50us]

I mean... in many cases it really is. The US as a whole has a "Just in time" logistics model where things get where they're needed, when they're needed. Typically, there's nothing wrong with that, until suddenly, there is. The reason for this is because storing something long-term gets very expensive and very dodgy (especially with perishables) very quickly.

[@robertsmith2956]

When they had cabooses the guy in back would have seen the fire.

[@swilliams937]

@Robert Smith, indeed, but that might have resulted in fewer stock shares being bought back, which is unsafe to the NS wallet.

[@ElkStirrinTheHoney]

Thank you Mr Whitaker for your testimony and advice. I hope no backlash comes your way.

[@kennethnevel3263]

This train derailment was totally preventable, if they would have stopped and checked why that car was getting hotter after the second detector, things were going bad fast at that point . This is what is known as a Hot Box in years of old . They keep going until the bear and axle literally melted the steel and came apart . When the grease was gone the bearing life ended shortly after that and the melting of the steel started .

[@elainegoolsby9902]

Upkeep maintance! Take care of the problem before it becomes a problem. Check your oil, tires, wiper fluid, coolant, etc., before you start out on a car trip. Makes sense to me! Why not do an inspection on the trains, a real inspection, before beginning a trip. My husband was a piolet and he inspected his plane before he took off, even though the crew had inspected the plane. That was part of his piolet training. What has happened to our lack-a-daisical world? People don't do their job; it's called, "pass the buck!"

[@richardcohen2283]

When someone says, "It's my understanding....". It means they' ve been fed info or they're not sure. Which means you need written or digital verification time stamped of the EXISTING, latest company policy in respects to this matter.

[@paulskopic5844]

So what is NS doing to compensate the victims of NS"s negligence besides offering $1000 for silence? Amazing how these executives sold their soul for $$$$ bonuses.

[@RogerWKnight]

Here is an idea: Instead of the hotbox detectors sending the info of temperature thresholds, be they 170 or 200 Fahrenheit sized degrees over ambient, how about a constant temperature reading for every axle, and an outdoor temperature reading? Available to both the dispatcher and to the crew of each and every train? Short of the threshold, the temperature is rising at a certain rate that is not normal. Bearings also make funny noises when they start to go bad. Detect that. Send to a speaker in the cab of the driving locomotive. Limit the length of the trains to one mile. When was the last time an airline pilot was told to "keep flying" when he is saying, "Hey, something's not kosher up here, I need to bring this bird to the nearest runway for an emergency landing."?

[@starcrafsf7101]

I think the threshold is important, as well as what you mentioned. And there should also be an alert when unusual spikes in temperature happen. So all three create a redundancy that aerospace has long since learned is necessary. A single alert is bound to fail, but having 3 different things to alert to the same thing, well you might miss one, and could miss 2 but if you miss all 3, then your just incompetent, or there’s some serious problems.

[@randallreese7118]

So who is going to be responsible for all the damage and taking care of these folks in ohio

[@michelemcneill3652]

The home owners should be paid more than their houses were worth before they purposely released the chemicals and purposely burned them. It was an outrageous way to deal with their screw up.

[@suzankephart8461]

They should have relocated the whole town. It is not safe.

[@kathryntully9824]

Why aren't the people on the train being questioned?

[@chaz134]

They were able to stop the train ; they deliberately let it derail.

[@dbadagna]

In addition to the surveillance video showing the train's axle on fire 20 miles and nearly a full hour prior to the derailment, there were not one, but five (5!) 911 calls reporting that the train's axle was on fire--the earliest coming in from Sebring, Ohio, a full 30 miles west of East Palestine, and an hour prior to the derailment. These 911 calls were ignored by Norfolk Southern, which instead advised the conductor to keep the train moving and get it into the Norfolk Southern Conway Rail Yard in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, which is located just a few miles to the east of East Palestine.

[@madmachine5244]

For safety systems to work you first need to remove the bureaucracy and send all of safety information to the train.

[@leniamaj]

With the rise in temperature... I sincerely thought he was about to blame the derailment on climate change... lol

[@florencesofaly4883]

No need to thank him for the question. He's there to ask questions. You are there to answer questions.

[@kingforaday8725]

"Old Charlie stole the handle and the train wont stop going no it wont slow down......" Jethro Tull, Locomotive Breath

[@adolfmcduck1265]

As he picks up Gideons Bible open at page 1.

[@collier8931]

Answer the question the first time it’s asked.

[@steveladner4346]

The border is wide open and we are having lots of coincidences...????

[@joeys.5352]

…after a spy balloon is left to go right on through.

[@michaelatkin9649]

No, we are under terror attacks and the CIA and probably Isreal is apart of it. They probably have Muslims coached in committing the attacks just like always

[@douglemay7989]

Still yammering on about a situation that will never be fixed?

[@anthonyhovis3203]

Because they have an INSURANCE POLICY AND NEEDED PAYED????

[@christianbolt5761]

They should consider criminally charging people, when appropriate. It is the best way to avoid the monetizing risk

[@freedomfan4272]

×ChristianBolt people who deserve to be criminally charged are getting off with a slap on the hand thanks to the jelly spined working in the court systems

[@philliphsieh83]

I will Obey Ted Cruz and The U.S. Government!

[@psalm91...]

Norfolk caused the mess, made the mess, need to be held accountable to clean the mess & PAY ALL MEDICAL EXPENSES DUE TO THEIR NEGLIGENCE for years to come. The citizens need Board Certified Physicians of their choosing. The citizens need to be made whole.

[@scotthamilton007]

I have been wanting an answer to this question for months. And now I learn that 103 degrees above ambient temperature is still below threshold to stop a train to check out what’s going on?! Who came up with this threshold??

[@richardcohen2283]

Yes. These standards are written someplace as policy. Let's see the written documentation, the date on it and the committee people who passed these standards. Let's hold them accountable. Let's see if we are being fed lies.

[@oregon32nursenurse43]

If the HOT train cars were able to pass by three HOT BOX WARNINGS, why would MORE hot boxes be better? 🤪

[@marshalillard9127]

Something is going on wrong with all of these trains something is not write at all

[@terrybrown797]

@RogerWilco99 does it make you feel better that you were able to correct someone that was unable to communicate correctly you understood what they were saying this behavior only suppresses people. stop

[@jeniferketchum9754]

I can't sit listen to this "HotBox" 2000 times,,, it's making me think dirty thoughts 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💯

[@beornthebear.8220]

The conductors should;d get real time hot box warnings. They learned in passenger flights many years ago that the 2 pilots should be able to track problems real-time so they can stop a flight or fix an issue before it becomes critical. The conductors of the train should have the same rule. That could have avoided a big disaster.

[@freedomfan4272]

@Beorn The Bear hot box detectors aka Defect detectors come across the radio in which both the conductor and engineer can hear computerized voice message

[@starcrafsf7101]

Yep, sometimes a delay actually saves a SHIT TON of money in the long run rather than the short term costs. Something that I’ve noticed since years ago, corpos only look at the short term now effects rather than the “sure it might cost us a little more right now, but it’ll save us time, headache, and massive expense later”

[@nosmokeey]

Very enlightening, thanks to Mr Wittiker 😊

[@charleneterrell]

When they sent me back to Carderock, he started giving me bullshit assignments. He told me that's what he was told to give me. I was trying to move to Submarine Design while at the Navy Yard to leave ASN because of the harrassement, and they demoted me to looking up definitions while at Carderock.

[@moefeaux1442]

***I wished Cruz would have followed with "what good is it if we implement all these detectors if we don't act on their data"?***

[@nagrabagra4924]

I don't care what these CEO's say, there's no excuse!! With all the science and tech they have, they should know better. They've neglected their rails and trains to the people's peril and to their own financial benefit NO EXCUSE!!!

[@gcs9350]

Sue them fools

[@tonivoyles504]

They use to have detectors on all wheels - they have been recently removed?????

[@BC.aNewSeason]

Wow, some damning testimony on behalf of the train conductor!🇺🇸

[@Shoshana-xh6hc]

Excuses and no answers 🤡💩

[@terrybrown797]

If the problem stay on social media the problems will never be resolved. free speech is dead. Actions speak louder than words if they are incompetent then we need to take action before more innocent people are harmed

[@ashleymarie6682]

Our rail CEOs are cringe at best to listen to. As a railroad family, we have watched this industry reach an all time low after our family’s life being dictated daily by what rail CEOs decide FOR us. We place our life around this job and in return, they still care more about their shareholders than their employees. This video sums up how incompetent the leadership in rail is at managing their infrastructure and employees, and how geared they are and good they are at making money and legal games of twister. If they didn’t have lawyers and money, they wouldnt know how to survive in the industry actually, gasp, just getting cargo from point A to B. If it werent for national media attention, the crew would’ve been fired immediately. The crews are always fired regardless if its the companies fault. When you get called to investigation on anything they’ve already decided your fate it’s just a matter of making the report look legit and asking the right questions and getting the right answers. The fact this CEO says “our employees did nothing wrong”, its like, a person in an abusive relationship and suddenly the cops are asking questions and out of no where they speak good things. This kind of stuff does not happen. Employees always get thrown under the bus. And railroad sweeps it under the rug. They are doing the same thing they always do except the difference now is their flowery speeches aren’t working. They are not used to actually having to foot the bill on anything or explain. Its not part of their business model.

[@Jason-dy6qy]

Preach it! 💪

[@vanessasouth3562]

Sir, keep up the good work

[@edjarrett3164]

I think the overwhelming vibe was to ignore a potential derailment to keep the the train running. I don’t know where that decision was made, but it wasn’t the safe decision. The results speak for themselves. Will there be accountability for poor decision making? Nothing to date.

[@fido3561]

The bosses want to make more money, the dispatchers and safety people want to keep their jobs and guys like the one that spoke up wants changes so all can live. So guess what the only changes that will be made is the guy that spoke out WILL get fired or transferred to some shed in North Dakota guarding some crossing and never heard from again.

[@edjarrett3164]

@@fido3561 I’m not a RR guy, but have many years in aircraft accident investigations. I don’t understand the culture that would allow this to happen. We’re talking people’s lives, hazardous chemicals And safety warnings ignored. I’m kind of aghast that this is happening and that the companies are okay with it. There need’s to be immediate change. Profit can’t over ride the health of the fleet and the people that run it.

[@robertsmith2956]

@@edjarrett3164 Then you should know democrats WANT people hurt. Remember when obama and the democrats passed the law requiring gun owners to leave their gun in the seats while they ride locked in a box in the baggage compartment. Children run around trains, and democrats wanted loaded guns just sitting in the seats.

[@Jason-dy6qy]

​@@edjarrett3164 this seems to be a Norfolk Southern thing, CSX and Union Pacific have these detectors as well and the crew is notified by every one of them, how many axels are counted, if there is dragging equipment, and hot bearing detector with a mile post and speed. You stop the train if there is a problem and report to a control station where and why you are stopping. It's actually pretty simple.

[@edjarrett3164]

@@Jason-dy6qy Jason, Really glad to hear this. I am a 100% supporter of our RR companies who take care of safety issues. Norfolk Southern has to answer for their procedures and actions.

[@boat_topper6147]

why be so nice to these guys? They only destroyed an entire town and people's health, killed animals, fish , and poisoned air and water, No Big deal.

[@leewilliams5341]

Profit over safety. The safety is there but if we stop the train and inspect, we are going to loose money so by all means keep the trains rolling.

[@dbadagna]

Train conductors and engineers used to repeat this adage, which summarized the M.O. of their employers: ====== Uphill slow, downhill fast, tonnage first, SAFETY LAST!

[@paulaurquidi2279]

Yikes 😱

[@jackplumber6857]

anytime i hear thank you for that question i know its about to a load of bs coming

[@lm-usmc]

I'm assuming Mr. Whitaker is no longer employed by the railroad, because he just threw them under the bus, but in this case, the train. No one but the crew would have given that info. I'm glad he was present. I work in an oil refinery. A spike in temperature, especially a temperature, that is steadily increasing, even though it is under the threshold, is definitely a cause for concern and should have been acted on.

[@elainegoolsby9902]

The same when driving a car, if the temperature gage starts going up, you better stop, or you are going to have a bad problem!! Stop, Look, and Listen!!

[@brendaann727]

@@elainegoolsby9902 -Good advice!!!! If you don't stop you could end up with a blown engine!

[@cfp11]

Why hasnt this been put in place already? Sounds like common sense to me.

[@NO-GAMES]

If a rail car usually has only 4 wheels, each wheel needs to have an individual sensor and this needs to be hard wired and connected to the engineers cabin when connected to the train. This will insure that the engineer has full knowledge of the vehicles he's responsible for. This can be achieved with minimal cost.

[@awr2024]

You actually believe that ? Hot box detectors. Inspect the wheels as they go by them. It's not sensors on the wheels. What we need to know is was there actually alarms that went off ?? Or did the detector not trigger the alerts

[@ArtStoneUS]

About two-thirds of all real cars are owned by shippers and leasing companies, not the railroad. Your gun is pointed in the wrong direction

[@NO-GAMES]

@@awr2024 what I firmly believe is that we create a system that creates and designates someone has and takes personal responsibility, with no room for excuses. That should be the engineer, the one that operates the train. The present system failure was due to a gap in the chain of command in relaying pertinent information to the engineer.

[@NO-GAMES]

@@ArtStoneUS I drive a truck as my personal transportation, it's built with at least 100 sensors, which are connected to my dashboard and tell me what information the car company thinks is necessary for me to know , they put an idiot light on my vehicle dashboard so I stop driving when there's a critical failure.

[@ArtStoneUS]

@@NO-GAMES Trucks and trains are different things. Is your truck 15,000 ft long?

[@keithr-xj7zx]

What good does it do to add more detectors if they ignore the detectors they already have?

[@allthehardtimes]

My guess is the FBI blew this train up in a populated area that would explain not one camera angle is publicly shown like the pentagon on 9/11

[@levialston518]

I still didn't hear the question answered

[@dorothynelson8620]

Ted, Ted please don't u have more information issues u have to deal with.

[@lonniefreeman5763]

His job is to keep the spot light off of trump and that's his only job.

[@annemillenlongacre4462]

Throw everyone of those people in Prison.

[@Tina-mt9cl]

This is why monopolies are supposed to be broken up by our government. But Norfolk Southern is unionized so they donate TONS of money to democratic politicians making them immune to the regulation and monopoly laws that affect non-unionized companies.

[@adolfmcduck1265]

@@Tina-mt9cl There are 5 different companies that own railroads. That's not a Monopoly.

[@paulgaasenbeek4943]

No one is really thankful for the questions. Quit wasting time. Quit trying to look polite. Just answer.

[@nobillclinton]

Kudos to Forbes for this report.

[@GhostSot]

Welp, Mr. Whitaker won't have a job long.. Calling them out like that

[@boogaloobaloo]

He's putting principles over paychecks. Which is exactly what this world needs. Unfortunately it's also the exact opposite of what corporations want.

[@immrnoidall]

If we have evidence of 103 degrees meaning total disaster, why is that temp the max limit?

[@normanjacques4092]

That was a great exchange. You can tell who works for who and which person is trying to solve the problem.

[@tobyw9573]

US has had major train traffic since the Civil War, about 150 years. Hot boxes are not a new problem but have always been a critical one.

[@slijpner]

When You Derail Twice In A Month. Then You Don't Know How To Run A Train!

[@roostercrows3477]

3 hot box warning. Have you seen the tracks in America. PROFIT before life The boxes are not in place. 2023 they should be already in place. WHAT A JOKE TANKERS RIGHT NOW ARE ON THE TRACKS ACROSS AMERICA. WAS THIS DONE ON PURPOSE ????????????????????????????????????

[@holycrap0866]

Dang! Id like to here the rest of his response.

[@tomhamilton9140]

Thank you for the question that i will not answer. 😢

[@patwhite7970]

This will drag out for a very long time. The air and water are still contaminated and the residents are suffering. You notice that Biden doesn't visit these derailment. Maybe a while after a tornado but not much.

[@katies97bl]

They are way to far behind the technology this should have been done long ago. This is crap QUALITY CONTROL IS A MUST FOR SAFETY OF EVERYONE.

[@aarondavis5535]

simple they wanted it to happen

[@joshuamurphy2132]

I HATE when all these people say “thank you for the question”…. That’s a time wasting tactic that is being said to PURPOSELY waste time

[@lisaazzano1811]

What's the point of algorithms if they are just going to ignore them and let a train derail?

[@Zerozombie77]

Why is it that my vehicle can see low tire pressure but they can't put a thermocouple on the axles to communicate with the train? The American public isn't stupid!

[@freedomfan4272]

The hot box detectors aka defect detectors come across the radio inside the locomotive letting the crew know about any issues.

[@davids3915]

increasing hot boxes? they ignore them anyway.

[@decemberschild1504]

Rafael Cruz. What an embarrassment.

[@tons-wb1hl]

"Why didn't the hot box detectors trigger the train to be stopped?" Answer- "The hot box detectors were working as designed and were adding more." 😂

[@TheRantingCabbie]

I'm getting really tired of hearing "thank you for the question" because all it means is that they're about to give an obfuscated pile of BS.

[@blueflame0003]

Good for you..i hate when people die and no one is the blame😢

[@brianrowe8244]

Someone didn't listen to the radio or they were not checking alarms.i bet they were in a dam hurry 😢😮

[@dbadagna]

In addition to the surveillance video showing the train's axle on fire 20 miles and nearly a full hour prior to the derailment, there were not one, but five (5!) 911 calls reporting that the train's axle was on fire--the earliest coming in from Sebring, Ohio, a full 30 miles west of East Palestine, and an hour prior to the derailment. These 911 calls were ignored by Norfolk Southern, which instead advised the conductor to keep the train moving and get it into the Norfolk Southern Conway Rail Yard in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, which is located just a few miles to the east of East Palestine.