A few years ago, I sat in a room with a bunch of other track inspectors for annual training. During a break, the instructor asked for a show of hands from everyone who felt they had found and repaired a track defect that had prevented a derailment.
All hands went up.
Then, he asked who felt that the cost of that derailment that never happened would pay for the wages of their entire career.
All hands went up.
What kind of idiot would want to get rid of those people?
https://apnews.com/article/automated-railroad-track-inspections-waiver-derailments-fra-d3c4b0f313585303e305e84fb4c03aef
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