Saturday's derailment was the third incident for the freight railroad in just over a month, including the toxic disaster in East Palestine.
"At Norfolk Southern, the safety of our crews and the communities we serve comes first," Connor Spielmaker, spokesman for Norfolk Southern, wrote via email."Part of enhancing safety is continuously evaluating how we operate our network, and we have been examining immediate ways to move that goal forward. Today, as an interim step, we are ensuring all trains longer than 10,000 feet are operated with distributive power.
"I have seen Norfolk Southern documents to yardmasters [Monday] morning from the field that is telling us trains no longer than 10,000 feet regardless of distributed power," said Ferguson."The train that derailed on Saturday already had distributed power, so their comment to CNBC does not make sense. I will say it is a good move by Norfolk Southern to take the right steps in reducing the train lengths, because the trains are too long.
Railroads have redesigned train length in an effort to use fewer people and to move more cars with fewer locomotives, reducing costs and generating higher profits. But railroad unions and customers have raised safety and service concerns.
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