Let me don my nightmare goggles for a moment and ask: What are the odds that this was a domestic terrorist attack caused by a group of maligned workers who were angry about the rail strike bill?
The rail workers requested safety improvements among other things. The management ignored and then proceeded to do stock buyback while firing people.
Yeah John, I don't notice anything either, on account of me being forced to work and having no autonomy in this industry. Would be a shame if something bad happened as a result.
If Bill were to have put the train into emergency, checked everything, let it cool off, and then resumed travel, there would have been no disaster but Bill would likely have been yelled at at best or written up at worst for delaying a train, causing disruption throughout the system.
Trains derail all the time.
From the link below [1]:
From 1990, the first year the BTS began tracking derailments and injuries on a yearly basis, to 2021, there have been 54,539 accidents in which a train derailed. That’s an average of 1,704 derailments per year.
[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/3539221-how-often-do-trains-der...
Imagine a truck driver complains about being worked too hard, then a week later he falls asleep at the wheel and crashes his truck. Is there a connection??? Gee, I wonder.
But yeah, in that example - totally the driver's fault. He's willing to break company property just to try to get himself some more sleep every week, without even considering the shareholders who've already taken out margin loans against their stock. Can you imagine how crappy it will be for them if next quarter comes in below analyst estimates?