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2023-02-23 Home Front: Politix

Mayor Pete tells reporter he needs some "personal time"

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Posted by Frank G 2023-02-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top

#1 there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing

I wonder why he hasn't tried to reduce that count.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-23 00:09|| 2023-02-23 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 He's on personal leave, or vacation, or paternity leave, or ...

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-02-23 00:33|| 2023-02-23 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Leave of his senses, Rambler, leave of his senses.

Posted by Bobby 2023-02-23 00:58|| 2023-02-23 00:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Is it already his turn to breastfeed the twins?

Posted by Ebbains Threrenter5475 2023-02-23 02:32|| 2023-02-23 02:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Pete Buttigieg oddly asks to take reporter's picture after dodging her questions about Ohio derailment
Buttigieg would not answer questions about toxic train derailment because he was taking ‘personal time’

Posted by Frank G 2023-02-23 06:24|| 2023-02-23 06:24|| Front Page Top

#6 1000 derailments a year is about 2.7 per DAY. You'd think we would hear more about them.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-02-23 07:25|| 2023-02-23 07:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Nothing new. The term was "compartmentalization" in the Billy Jeff Bl*wjob era.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-23 08:25|| 2023-02-23 08:25|| Front Page Top

#8 In another train derailment, 31 Union Pacific cars carrying coal derail in Nebraska, company says

Cracked Tracks, Damaged Bearings, and Human Error: The Story of Train Derailments

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-23 08:29|| 2023-02-23 08:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Re #6 - It's also over 200,000 miles of railroad main line, and over 300,000 miles of track. It also depends on the level of reporting required by the Federal Railroad Administration. Back in the day, only derailments with $50,000 of total damage were reported. That reporting damage level has dropped a lot since than. One wheel off the rail, corrected by the train crew in an hour, is technically a derailment, although not reported to the FRA. The railroads continue to be profit-driven, but like other transportation systems, stuff happens.

Somewhat related - I guffawed last night, when the local news reported 'the EPA says they're gonna make the railroad pay for all of this' in East Palestine. Morons. The railroad always pays.

Full disclosure: From 1972-75 I worked for the Norfolk Southern predecessor, Southern Railway, and since then devoted a good bit of my 45-year engineering career to freight rail and rail transit.

Posted by Bobby 2023-02-23 08:34|| 2023-02-23 08:34|| Front Page Top

#10 RETRO:
Multiple dead after Amtrak train derails in Missouri

We’ve seen reports of three train derailments this month. Is this normal?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-23 08:36|| 2023-02-23 08:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Could be that start of a new trend. There have been derailments caused by sabotage - Oregon an few years ago, where they caught the chick, and Arizona 20-odd years ago, where no one was caught, IIRC. I found tampering at a derailment 23 years ago, but it was not the cause of that derailment. The operator did call the FBI.

The best sabotage is done by folks who know how to bypass the safety systems...

Posted by Bobby 2023-02-23 10:11|| 2023-02-23 10:11|| Front Page Top

#12 It would appear that the lovable Mayor isn’t quite so lovable without a script in front of him.

Everyone with gamesmanship knew this, but nice to see it said out loud and framed on camera.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-23 11:05|| 2023-02-23 11:05|| Front Page Top

#13 [Bee] Aides Brief Buttigieg On Ohio Disaster Using Wooden Toy Train Set

Posted by Frank G 2023-02-23 11:24|| 2023-02-23 11:24|| Front Page Top

#14 "Thomas had never seen such bullshit."

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-23 11:53|| 2023-02-23 11:53|| Front Page Top

#15 there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing

A classic example of deflection from a classic example of a sociopath.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-23 13:03|| 2023-02-23 13:03|| Front Page Top

#16 Yeah, of those 1000 derailments, 800 or so are like the chain slipping off my bicycle sprocket. The other 200, not so much. But how many actually make national news every year? A dozen or so?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-23 13:08|| 2023-02-23 13:08|| Front Page Top

#17 Stuck home. K-Y Jelly crisis?

Posted by Woodrow 2023-02-23 13:23|| 2023-02-23 13:23|| Front Page Top

#18 He'll get to the "bottom" of it...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-23 13:49|| 2023-02-23 13:49|| Front Page Top

#19 Nipple Thrush.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-23 15:00|| 2023-02-23 15:00|| Front Page Top

#20 ^ Not lookin it up. Nope...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-23 15:01|| 2023-02-23 15:01|| Front Page Top

#21 Impeach the SOB and he will have all the personal time he can stand.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-02-23 15:55|| 2023-02-23 15:55|| Front Page Top

#22 how many train derailments are cars on the tracks?

Posted by ruprecht 2023-02-23 22:11|| 2023-02-23 22:11|| Front Page Top