Buttigieg Fiddles While East Palestine, Ohio Burns, by Douglas Andrews

It’s been nearly a decade since a runaway train hauling 72 tankers of crude oil derailed near the center of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The subsequent explosion and inferno pretty much wiped out the town and killed 47 of its 6,000 residents. And yet, rather remarkably, it ranks as only the fourth-deadliest railway disaster in Canadian history.

We mention this because we often forget that while railways are essential to our way of life, they can also on occasion be deadly dangerous, especially when transporting volatile cargo. Or toxic cargo. …

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