Right so I've been going down this rabbit hole for the past few days and I can't find anyone who's actually looked into the comms blackout angle properly. There were multiple reports of mobile signal dropping out in the East Palestine area in the window before the derailment and nobody in the mainstream seems to want to touch it.
Now I'm not saying its a smoking gun, I know cell towers go offline for all sorts of mundane reasons. But the timing is what gets me. You combine that with the fact that Norfolk Southern had been flagged for brake issues on that exact route months prior and suddenly the "tragic accident" narrative starts looking a bit convenient.
Has anyone actually pulled the FCC outage logs for that region and that date range? That'd be the first thing I'd want to see before drawing any conclusions. I'm sceptical of the more out-there theories floating around but the infrastructure angle deserves a proper look rather than just being lumped in with the tinfoil hat stuff.