[KennyBlanken]

Pressuring engineers, dispatchers and yard crews to stick to increasingly tight schedules, especially while understaffed, is exactly how you end up with more incidents.

They don't care. The costs are minimal compared to the profits, the bad PR can be massaged, etc.

Edit: also forgot that the president and both halves of congress have clearly telegraphed "full speed ahead" after the recent nonsense around the railroad union strikes. These workers aren't even getting time off for sick days or family emergencies (the latter of which is almost certainly a violation of the Family Medical Leave Act.)