a string of oil train apocalyptic crashes led the federal government to crackdown on things like oil train speed and beefed up standards for the tanker cars transporting the oil. but this crash in west virginia turns out this was not about speed or the rail cars. turns out this one was caused by something more galling. the federal railroad administration released the findings of their investigation into that mt. carbon, west virginia derailment. and what they found was that what happened there was caused by the railroad tracks. it wasn't some mysterious problem. it wasn't some unforeseeable freak thing. it was something the railroad knew about. csx owns the tracks. they hired a contractor to inspect the raldz. the good news, i guess, is that contractor did detect something being wrong in the rails there. twice. not once but twice that contractor detected a flaw in the rail in the specific spot where that derailment happened. the contractor hired to inspect the rails said she did see a