The National Transformation Board weighed in on the cause of the train derailment in East Palestine and confirmed
The operators of the Norfolk Southern train involved in a toxic derailment in East Palestine, Ohio earlier this month received an critical audible alarm message instructing the crew to slow and stop the train to inspect a hot axle,according to a newly released National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report Thursday.
After the train stopped, the crew observed fire and smoke and notified the Cleveland East dispatcher of a possible derailment. With dispatcher authorization, the crew applied handbrakes to the two railcars at the head of the train, uncoupled the head-end locomotives, and moved the locomotives about 1 mile from the uncoupled railcars," the NTSB wrote. "Responders arrived at the derailment site and began response efforts."