I have a friend who actually works in rail cleanup, and he isn't even allowed to take pictures of what he cleans up. Some of the stories he tells are wild.
His views are pretty much just like yours. Rail companies don't give a ####, and the government cares even less.
Interestingly enough, both care very much about derailments becoming public info and making sure the general public doesn't know how risky the rails are to begin with, which adds to your point about transporting oil via rail and not pipelines is stupid.
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