Montana train derailment report renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems
Federal investigators renewed their recommendation that major freight railroads equip every locomotive with the kind of autonomous sensors that could have caught the track flaws that caused a fatal 2021 Amtrak derailment in northern Montana. The NTSB report laid blame in part on BNSF railroad, which owns the tracks, and “a shortcoming in its safety culture.”
Source: yahoo.com
