A rule repealed by the Trump administration required all high-hazard cargo trains to have electronically controlled pneumatic brakes by 2023. The rule wouldn't have applied to the train that derailed in Ohio, because it wasn't categorized as “high-hazard.”
After this rule was enacted, lobbyists for railway and oil companiesto repeal it, questioning the effectiveness of electronic brakes and arguing that the cost of installing them was too high.
However, even if this safety rule had still been in effect, it would not have applied to the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine, because it was not categorized as a high-hazard cargo train., it did not meet the Department of Transportation’s narrow definition of a high-hazard flammable unit train in that it didn’t have at least 70 cars containing flammable materials, such as crude oil or ethanol.
The Obama administration enacted a rule in 2015 requiring high-hazard flammable unit trains to be outfitted with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes by 2023.
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