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   The companies involved in these accidents did not comment on them   
   specifically. See what they said about their safety practices here. BNSF   
   did not comment at all.   
      
   Finally, in September 2020, the FRA launched a study examining the brake   
   systems in long trains. The agency did not say why it took three years   
   after the Hyndman derailment and the warnings from the union to begin   
   examining the issue. It plans to complete the study this year. Also, late   
   last year, it completed a small survey of rail workers, labor unions and   
   railroad managers. Managers claimed long trains pose no new dangers, but   
   government employees and labor unions said they are concerned.   
      
   The National Academies of Sciences, doing a separate assessment of trains   
   longer than 1.4 miles at the request of Congress, must report its findings   
   by June 2024.   
      
      
   THREE DAYS AFTER the evacuation of Hyndman, Walls and his family returned   
   home. They’d been gone only 72 hours, but it felt like a reunion with   
   neighbors they hadn’t seen in years. He mowed his grass. It felt good   
   doing something so pedestrian.   
      
   But Shaffer and his wife never returned to their doublewide trailer. It   
   wasn’t safe, Shaffer recalls being told by CSX. “Pretty much had to fight   
   with them to get my guns and stuff out of there,” he said. The company   
   paid out a settlement the couple used to buy a big house with a big porch   
   7 miles out of town, far away from the railroad tracks. But even years   
   later, the derailment haunts him, whether he is waiting uneasily in his   
   truck at a railroad crossing or watching the news. When the East Palestine   
   disaster appears on his TV, he has to get up and walk away. “It’s   
   definitely still with me,” he said.   
      
   Sutphin and Mia bounced from her aunt’s house out of town to a hotel with   
   her stepdad then to a house on Myrtle Beach, an upscale vacation town on   
   the coast of South Carolina, and stayed there for a year. Every time an   
   airplane flew over the house, Sutphin shook and ran to the window, afraid   
   that something was about to crash into them. Mia rarely slept through the   
   night. Sutphin financed their long vacation with a $50,000 check from CSX.   
   The railroad also bought her a brand new Hyundai Santa Fe valued at   
   $32,000.   
      
   After it nearly razed the town, CSX handed out a lot of money. It bought   
   residents clothing, medicine, food, gas and hotel rooms. It reimbursed   
   businesses for lost revenue. It paid volunteer firefighters every day   
   about $1,000. It gave residents so-called inconvenience fee payments of   
   about $300 a day. It gave one family $10,000 for veterinarian bills and   
   damage to its property. It gave the fire department $190,000. A church   
   pastor said residents welcomed the payments, but he also said they felt   
   like “hush money,” and that’s the effect the money appears to have had on   
   some residents. When ProPublica asked about the derailment, many said that   
   the railroad did “all right by” them. Cleaning up and rebuilding the town   
   and the tracks, according to the FRA, cost $9.6 million. CSX defended the   
   money it spent around town, saying it did not ask the residents to release   
   their legal rights in exchange for the payments. “Such actions,” a   
   spokesperson told ProPublica, “are part of CSX’s industry-leading standard   
   of care when incidents like the derailment in Hyndman occur.”   
      
   Walls remembers a CSX official walking up to him while he was standing on   
   the front steps of the charter school on the morning of the derailment, a   
   gray column of smoke from the tanker car still billowing into the sky. “I   
   know we came in and messed your town up,” the official said, “but we’ll   
   make it right before we leave.” Walls appreciates the money CSX spent on   
   the town and its people. But that was the railroad’s responsibility. What   
   would make things right, he said, is “making sure that the trains coming   
   through here are safe.”   
      
      
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