From: gl4317@yahoo.com   
      
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    "conklin"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Ok, then I repeat:   
   >   
   >  If certain safety programs are required for Metro-North to keep from having   
   > accidents, then oil trains need the same equipment and safety protocols.   
   > Since the tank car which went in the James River at Lynchburg, VA, and then   
   > reptured, was the "new" design, it seems like the safety upgrades for tank   
   > cars are not very effective or perhaps not even signficant in a serious   
   > derailment.   
      
      
   None of the oil train derailments that I am aware of were caused by   
   problems that this program at Metro-North are designed to prevent.  If   
   it were caused by poor quality track, as you seem to think it was, what   
   needs to happen is improved track monitoring.   
      
   There are other countries out there that have fewer derailments than the   
   USA.  It seems to me it might be worth taking a look at some of those   
   countries to see what they are doing that is different.   
      
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