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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPhiladelphia Inquirer reporting investigators think train may have been going twice allowed speed...
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/live_chats/Live-coverage-Amtrak-crash-.html
This is consistent with a report from NBC last night (Amtrak was reportedly able to download data from the black box before it was physically recovered).
nb - Amtrak engines should all be equipped with "Positive Train Control" which is intended to govern and restrict train speeds.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)That's telling.
marym625
(17,997 posts)brooklynite
(94,727 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)The first report I heard, early this morning, was he was dead. Obviously that was incorrect.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)It is not telling at all. The lawyer is most likely a union lawyer.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)The bent in two car was the first car. The engine separated from it. It looks to me that the first car hit something and stopped abruptly separating it from the engine that kept going until it lost power from the overhead wires. The rest of the train pushed against the first car which was held in place thus bending it in two. The rest of the train then came off the tracks piling up behind the first car.
I think a rail broke or wheel and the first car dug into the roadbed.
marym625
(17,997 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)has not spent enough on infrastructure to keep the roadbed in repair.
They'll try to pin it on speed so they don't have to discuss infrastructure
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)This is link for breaking news on the crash
http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/amtrak-derailment-in-philadelphia/
elleng
(131,107 posts)Puddy
(51 posts)I'll bet the black box is going to show that speed and human error was at fault. This is usually the case in accidents like this.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I used to live in Philly and that's an insane speed for that area of track, I don't think I've ever seen it.