Montana train derailment report renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems
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The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana.

Montana train derailment renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems::The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana.

  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It’s kind of automated: when the locomotive spots a problem, it rolls over. Then people come along to fix it.