Montana train derailment renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems

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Montana train derailment renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems::The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana.

I’m surprised it isn’t already automated, you’d think it’d save money
Its there,but it only monitors breakage. Warpage is much harder to detect without actually sending someone down there after every train.