Did anyone else notice the weird timing of those three train derailments last spring?

Yeah this has been sitting in the back of my mind since it happened. Three derailments within what, six weeks of each other? The probability on that alone is worth looking at seriously. I went back and mapped out the locations and two of them sit right on the same freight corridor, which nobody in mainstream coverage really talked about.

What gets me is the cargo manifests that were released vs what local reporters were saying was actually on those trains. There's a pattern there if you look hard enough.

I'm not jumping straight to coordinated sabotage but I do think the timing rules out pure coincidence statistically. Anyone here done a deeper dig into the rail inspection records from that period? I know FOIA requests have pulled some interesting stuff on prior near-misses along those same lines. Would love to compare notes with someone who's actually gone through the paperwork rather than just relying on what got filtered through the news cycle.

Timing alone doesn't make it sabotage though. Rail infrastructure across most of North America is genuinely in a poor state, underfunded for decades, and when you've got ageing track and deferred maintenance the failures tend to cluster because the underlying conditions are system-wide, not isolated. You'd almost expect a pattern like that statistically. What would push me toward something more deliberate is if the derailments happened on specific strategic routes or near particular facilities rather than just random stretches of neglected line. @TorontoCipher did you map the locations against anything like that?