This is how someone on another site I frequent summed things up:

Here’s how this is going to play out:
1. A lot of people are going to get very, very sick from this.
2. A very large class action lawsuit will be filed against Norfolk Southern.
3. Norfolk Southern will reach a settlement with the class action, in which the families affected will get next to nothing, the lawyers will get the biggest cut, and the chem company and railroad company will walk away without every <sic> claiming wrongdoing.
4. Norfolk Southern will declare bankruptcy and will be split into two entities: Norfolk Southern and Norfolk NotSouthern.
5. Norfolk Soutern <sic> (restructured entity) will take on all debt and legal responsibility for the cleanup. With no assets to pay the court fee, this entity will be dissolved with very little money actually changing hands.
6. Norfolk NotSouthern will take on all assets and no legal liability, continuing on as usual.
7. Sick people will get sicker and die, and no one will ever be held accountable.

It’s almost as American as a mass shooting.