12-11-2020, 04:55 PM
(12-11-2020, 04:14 PM)KevinL Wrote:(12-11-2020, 11:51 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: I don’t understand how passenger trains could need to slow to 25mph while it’s still considered perfectly safe for freight to blow through at 125mph.
It's perfectly understandable - freight goods are not human lives. In essence, there was a fractionally higher risk of derailment or other incident, enough that it could be seriously deadly to a train packed with people - but the risk is economic, not human, with goods and does not require a change to limits.
I believe that a freight train is still operated by people and operates around other people.
Not to mention that a freight train is heavier and more likely to derail than a lighter passenger train.