‘The longer the train, the heavier the train’ — Ohio disaster calls attention to freight’s growing bulk
[ad_1] The Ohio derailment is still under investigation by multiple agencies, including the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB, an independent agency, has said preliminarily that an overheated wheel bearing on one of the cars is partially the culprit for the derailment. However, derailments like these…