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A 14-year-old took home $10,000 for his award-winning investigation into train derailments. Here's what he found.
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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2024
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Awesome kid...stupid with all the technology that we have nobody thought about the simplest thing.
They did. In the 90s, the FRA figured out plastic bearing pads caused a wobble in one exact type of intermodal car that triggered derailment.