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[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was a secret, I guess, but dereailments... soooo many derailments.

[–] applejacks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My pet theory has been that derailments actually have not become more frequent, we just never heard about them before.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can look up U.S. data yourself from the FRA's website. Graph of accidents per 1M train-miles

For each year between Jan 1 and Jun 30, this many derailment incidents were reported in the U.S.:

2014 	2015 	2016 	2017 	2018 	2019 	2020 	2021 	2022 	2023
639 	723 	591 	643 	692 	694 	549 	521 	577 	587
[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You would be correct.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Would not have been my first guess, but yeah, Canada too.