As I began writing about the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, my computer screen got blurry.
Yours might, too, if you take eight minutes and do what I did — watch the following video.
Frustrated by government and corporate inaction following the toxic hazardous materials train wreck of Feb. 3, conservative Benny Johnson took $20,000 his YouTube channel earned last month and gave envelopes filled with $1,000 in cash to 20 residents living by the railroad tracks.
Hugs, tears, and even a kiss from a big German shepherd greeted his efforts.
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And the true spirit of America arose as several people tried to decline the gift, urging Johnson to give the money to someone needing it more. Johnson refused, urging the reluctant recipients to “pay it forward” themselves.
It’s been hard to determine what’s been going on in East Palestine. News coverage has been minimal and the federal government has been indifferent.
But people in that small community near the Pennsylvania border are hurting.
Having done a lot of academic research on railroads and having done some specialized news reporting of that industry, I, like many others, have been closely following the story.
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Consulting general media, railroad trade press, and online comments from active and retired railroaders, I can list some things which seem to be facts, following by incidences and coincidences from which conclusions arise based on speculation.
The facts seem to be the following:
A malfunction known as a “hotbox,” an overheated bearing, seems to have caused the derailment.
Although the National Transportation Safety Board won’t have a preliminary report for several weeks, they’ve hinted at a hotbox and there is online video from WRAL depicting what seems to be a security camera showing sparks and flames coming from beneath a passing railroad car shortly before the derailment.
While railroads have heat-sensing hotbox detectors every 10 or 20 miles, the train that wrecked in East Palestine apparently was reportedly in good shape at the detector 20 miles before the…
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