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Episode 129: East Palestine Derailment

Well There‘s Your Problem

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Safety Third: Shake Hands With Danger

ECP brakes, that was another thing designed to facilitate single-man crews. Auto-throttle is... Oh, God, yeah. That would be a whole other episode. I mean, I know deer of deer remnants that were caused by all of the train control software just doing the stupidest stuff. One of them was like five cars of molten asphalt dumped into a river in Iowa because the front look might have stopped and the back look might have kept on pushing. The computer knows best. Computer knows all the thinking sand knows everything. Yeah, the brain knows where it is. Because it knows where it's not. Where it's not is on the tracks.

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