Despite toxic disaster, railroads still want single person crews

The nation's major freight railroads have long desired to have only one crew member, a lone engineer, in the cab of their locomotives. And that desire hasn't changed despite the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train on February 3 that released toxic chemicals into the air, water and soil of East Palestine, Ohio, that is still being cleaned up.

source https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/business/east-palestine-derailment-single-person-rr-crew-rule/index.html