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The morons in charge see short term expenses and not the future consequences of their actions.
Also, between insurance and shoving the costs of cleanup onto various local, state, and federal governments, the cost of these derailments might even be lower than the cost of maintaining these tracks. But I’m speculating pretty hard there.
Some of the job titles of people I know would sound insane to people in the 80s.