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Montana train derailment renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems (apnews.com)

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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.

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[–] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Its there,but it only monitors breakage. Warpage is much harder to detect without actually sending someone down there after every train.