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JDC wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 1:11 pm The latest: "emergency inspections stemming from the most recent incident have uncovered 32 rail cars with parts fastened by bolts that might be a different shape or size than what manufacturers intended. That discrepancy is being probed to determine whether it might have resulted in a disc brake falling off a train and leading to Friday’s derailment." https://www.washingtonpost.com/transpor ... a-airport/Shape, size, grade. Somebody in procurement's getting fired...