What is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?

NotSpez@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 629 points –
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Was a secret, I guess, but dereailments... soooo many derailments.

My pet theory has been that derailments actually have not become more frequent, we just never heard about them before.

You can look up U.S. data yourself from the FRA's website. Graph of accidents per 1M train-miles

For each year between Jan 1 and Jun 30, this many derailment incidents were reported in the U.S.:

2014 	2015 	2016 	2017 	2018 	2019 	2020 	2021 	2022 	2023
639 	723 	591 	643 	692 	694 	549 	521 	577 	587