Proposed federal regulations of freight trains should not give remote-control trains a...
A remote control locomotive crosses over Wallisville Road near North McCarty Street in Houston, TX on Tuesday April 11, 2023.80 cars – many of them filled with ethanol, liquid petroleum, and a variety of highly toxic chemicals – from its Settegast yard to the nearby Basin Railyard. The cars travel through the heart of Houston – not in a fenced-in railyard – but over railway crossings, under I-610, and skirting residential neighborhoods.
A train crosses over Lyons Road Road near Azteca Farmers Market in Houston, TX on Tuesday April 11, 2023.exposed the nation to Union Pacific’s and the other Class I railroads’ dirty little secret that many of these trains carrying dangerous cargo, such as the one just described, are being operated in metropolitan areas such as Houston, Tucson and Denver by remote control – without a licensed engineer onboard. If you don’t believe the news media, trust your own eyes.
In the wake of the East Palestine disaster, our public officials may finally be turning away from the railroad companies’ assurances to “trust us.” That tragedy has spurred the attention of three Republican and three Democratic U.S. Senators to introduce new legislation to, “enhance safety requirements for trains transporting hazardous materials, and for other purposes.”
A train crosses over Lyons Road Road near Azteca Farmers Market in Houston, TX on Tuesday April 11, 2023.It would mandate that “no freight train may be operated without a 2-person crew consisting of at least 1 appropriately qualified and certified conductor and 1 appropriately qualified and certified locomotive engineer.” This requirement is also long overdue. But let’s make sure that the bill’s sponsors are true to their word and that the law is enforceable.
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