SocraticGadfly: Could East Palestine happen in Gainesville?

February 21, 2023

Could East Palestine happen in Gainesville?


Gainesville,  Texas, is on the main line of Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) from Houston and the Gulf after it goes through the Metromess.

Gainesville's main city park, next to the under-known Great Hanging site, runs on the east side of the railroad. And, one train I saw last Saturday (of four in less than an hour's time) was ALL tank cars, as shown in the picture.

I didn't attempt an exact count, but 50-60 would be a conservative guess.

And, tying back to East Palestine, Ohio? A "pusher" locomotive on a later train? Norfolk Southern.

Sadly, Will Bunch, who I thought was better than this, went #BlueAnon by blaming it only Trump, even though a Jacobin piece he linked noted that the Obama Administration weakened its original train safety regulations, Trump got rid of the braking issue but not all of what Obama did do, and Biden didn't reinstate what Trump killed.

Bunch also ignores Amtrak Joe signing into bill the law trying to force railway workers back on the job just before Christmas without most of what they had been striking for.

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