
Episode 129: East Palestine Derailment
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The Benefits of ECP Braking
ECP braking involves adding the spole microcontroller on each car that would be able to monitor vital information. That means fewer car inspections and fewer carmen required to do those inspections. The railroads have since made all those labor productivity gains by simply telling the carmen to work harder, bitch. But yeah, you go from doing two minute inspections to 90 seconds? How the hell do you look at the whole car in 90 seconds?
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