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It Could Happen Here Weekly 72

Behind the Bastards

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Norfolk Southern Crashing a Train Full of Toxic Chemicals

Norfolk Southern basically set off a chemical weapon in Iowa by crashing one by crashing a train full of toxic chemicals. It's literally exploding, like right now as we're looking to recording this episode, it's on fire. You know, I love how when you deregulate train industry so that you can have just like one guy working a massive train hauling huge amounts of toxic chemicals, it works out great. Robert: Look, a train crash like this would have normally taken dozens of people to engineer. So we have improved our efficiency markedly.

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