As a reminder for those that don't follow this in detail: One of the main pushes of this bill would be requiring at least 2 people on all freight trains to "help improve safety".

Can you guess how many engineers there were on the East Palastine train? 3.

That obvious had no impact on this incident. As others have pointed out, more engineers are a security/safety theaters solution. It also makes unions happy, as it means they need to employ more people.

This is a terrible bill that was reactionary at the time, and does nothing to actually improve safety.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/railroad-crew-size-mandate-dera...