Strictly speaking, there is. It’s called a pipeline. But nobody is going to pipe a very specific set of chemicals hundreds of miles, because that would mean building a specific set of pipes for each product.
And the whole point of trains is to do that cheaply, rather than safely.
Part of me wonders what could be done beyond just train lengths. I think train consists should be forbidden from carrying more than a certain amount of different chemicals.
It’s not just a matter of train lengths. Europe and China see far less derailments than the USA by several orders of magnitude and it’s because they actually have safety laws around how these things can be used and what equipment trains need to have. Like brakes that work. And unions that give rail workers more than 90 seconds per car to inspect for issues. And regular maintenance.
By balloon, perhaps?
Imagine when someone hijacks a chemical truck and the cops circular firing squad it on a busy highway during rush hour… like that UPS truck a few years ago.
like that UPS truck a few years ago.
i hadn’t forgotten that one and remind people about it whenever I think about it… but there’s just so much shit that happens
Firing squad? What is this, the 1800s? Nah, they have robots with bombs on them. They’re gonna dirty bomb a whole city
people don’t understand rates and trucks are smaller than trains so each individual spill would be smaller and goldfish brained libs would never identify the problem
