Beyond the length of the train, investigators are probing a variety of factors, including whether the overheated wheel directly responsible for the derailment was detected fast enough by track equipment.
Trains' increasing length has been a source of concern for some time and has been in the East Palestine derailment. | Gene J. Puskar/AP PhotoA Norfolk Southern engineer who inspected the train before it derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, was rebuffed when he told a supervisor he was concerned about the train’s length and composition,The engineer, who inspected the 150-car train in Decatur, Ill. about 30 hours before it derailed on Feb.
“If you talk to the manager, they said this train was 100 percent rule compliant,” the engineer said during an interview with the NSTB. “To me, in my opinion, you know, you got 32 percent of the weight on the headend. Twenty percent in the middle and 40 percent weight on the rearend. So, to me, that’s why we reported that to the yardmaster and like I said this is what they want.”Trains’ increasing length has been a source of concern for some time.
The train’s faulty wheel had been trending hot over several of these “wayside detectors,” including the last one that recorded a temperature hot enough that the train would have been stopped for inspection. But right after passing that detector, the train derailed.
The documents were released Thursday as part of a two-day NTSB investigative hearing in East Palestine that will eventually inform a report on what caused the derailment, which sent a toxic fireball of fumes over the township, killing
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