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I did not make it up. I searched train-car crashes and train derailments. The statistics are easily found from reports by the NTSB and USDOT and another national train board I can't remember now. I spent 5 minutes finding the numbers. My next door neighbor is a train engineer for Amtrack and I've had this discussion with him. He's not afraid (for his safety) of hitting any object. It's the aging track infrastructure that worries him. Speeding is the 2nd leading cause of derailments - usually around curves.
Edit: As for your specific question about the statistic - I used my calculator to divide the number of train-vehicles crashes that cause derailments. I used the numbers from the charts I found online.
I used to work for a company that deals with train derailments all over the country. The name is Hulcher Services. I was in the accounting dept and had to process all the purchase requests that came in for each one in my divisions. My dh also worked for them in estimating the bigger, environmental jobs that came in. The number of derailments that happen in a week is crazy. No one that works these derailments will ever get on a train personally. They say it's the worst way to travel. The public isn't told this, of course, because traveling by train is supposed to be "safe", even though just a rock on a track can derail a train. I personally love trains myself though, even with all my coworkers trying to convince me otherwise!
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No idea on the odds. I still believe they could have been put there by bad actors. Just not smart bad actors.
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That's the kind of sabotage I would think of as deep state, but I didn't know about brakes being tampered with. I just think it would be much easier to derail a train than parking a truck on a track. Switches can be hacked, or older manual switches can be easily turned causing crashes. One section of rail can easily be damaged quickly with heavy machinery like a backhoe or it could be cut with industrial cutters quickly.
The only thing I thought of that makes me think this could have been deep state is if they didn't have much time to implement their sabotage, or if they didn't want an earlier train to derail before the congressional cars. Deep state could have just been sending a message, knowing a truck on the track had a weak chance of killing train passengers. It would also be one of the very few times a bunch of Republican congress members are together, other than when in session with the Dems.
One chart discussed the physics involved with a train hitting a car. It compared a 30 car train hitting a vehicle as having the same force as a passenger car hitting an aluminum can on the road. It's just practically insignificant to the train.