RT @doctorow
That rule would have required rail companies to replace the Civil-War-era brakes on their rolling stock with modern #ElectronicallyControlledPneumaticBrakes (#ECP):

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/rail-companies-safety-rules-ohio-derailment-brake-sytems-regulations 13/

That's what happened during the #Trump years, when rail lobbyists secured the repeal of a long-overdue, hard-won safety regulation that would have required rail companies to replace the Civil-War-era brakes on their rolling stock with modern #ElectronicallyControlledPneumaticBrakes (#ECP):

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/rail-companies-safety-rules-ohio-derailment-brake-sytems-regulations

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