News Brief: Defensiveness and Demagoguery in East Palestine
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Why Norfolk Southern Is Championing Electronic Controlled Pneumatic Breaks
The current technology that the overwhelming majority of freight train use is comes from 1868 and it's basically like a ricochet effect for a breaking. So if you have uneven loads across the cars, you really want them in order. And so the rail unions have championed these new breaks. The industry and congressional Republicans fought this very modest rule to the nail. Millions of dollars flowed into Republican campaign coppers from the railroad industry.
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