PA - Amtrak train from Washington crashes in Philadelphia, May 2015

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I would also hate to think that the engineer 'forgot' about the curve, Inthedetails. Do we know what kind of experience this engineer had? Surely he'd operated that route before last night.

I am going to sound like the older granny I am, but could the 'throttle whatchamacallit' have gotten stuck? The engine was not even a couple of years old yet. Barely broken in, IMO. Surely he knew with even the emergency brakes he wouldn't have had enough straight track to slow the train down to the speed limit and safely make the curve. Can you imagine what was going through his head knowing what was about to happen? He probably did everything he could.

IMO
 
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Oops...wrong link. Gimme a sec.
 
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Wouldn't the Engineer notice/feel that the train was gaining speed? or can a train with a malfunction go from slow speed to 100 plus in a matter of seconds? I wonder if he was distracted some how?
 
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Thanks ^ for the posts and links. My thanks button is broken again. It stops working just on random posts. Grrrrrrr
 
  • #206
Yahoo reporting Engineer refused to speak to police and left police station with his lawyer. Sorry couldn't link.
 
  • #207
Inthedetails said:
Check out the map at the link below - the section between the station and the crash is shown.

"The derailment occurred along a curved stretch of track about eight miles from where the train left the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia."

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...e-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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Bravo said:
Wouldn't the Engineer notice/feel that the train was gaining speed? or can a train with a malfunction go from slow speed to 100 plus in a matter of seconds? I wonder if he was distracted some how?
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It's just mind boggling to me!

If you look at that map, there were "curves" or "turns" from the time he left the station! The curve where he derailed is not that much sharper (is that proper grammar? LOL) than the one that is say, a mile or so before it! And there were much sharper ones just heading out of the station.

How does one get to that speed...in that short of a span of track??
 
  • #208
Whoa Mayor is now saying the Engineer was reckless. There was no reason possible to be going that speed. States he didn't have a heart attack etc. as he was briefed and treated last night and released.
 
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Bravo said:
Whoa Mayor is now saying the Engineer was reckless. There was no reason possible to be going that speed. States he didn't have a heart attack etc. as he was briefed and treated last night and released.
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It's time to check his cellphone records to confirm if he was active on it while he was accelerating.
 
  • #211
He had to know the route well enough to know the curve was coming with the 50 mph limit. Did something happen as far as a malfunction and the Engineer wasn't where he was suppose to be and doing what he was suppose to do? Not blaming just speculating.
 
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corundogs said:
How can someone still be missing?
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Per local news and family members here (WDIV, Detroit), Rachael texted her husband (they live in NYC, and she works in Philly) at 8:45PM last night to let him know that she was on her way home (on the train that she takes daily). No one has heard from Rachael since she texted her husband. Her mother has flown to Philadelphia to join Rachael's husband in locating the "missing" woman. No one has been contacted about her being deceased, so she might be among the injured or has not been found at the crash site. I'll watch local news at 11:00 for update.
 
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BetteDavisEyes said:
Per local news and family members here (WDIV, Detroit), Rachael texted her husband (they live in NYC, and she works in Philly) at 8:45PM last night to let him know that she was on her way home (on the train that she takes daily). No one has heard from Rachael since she texted her husband. Her mother has flown to Philadelphia to join Rachael's husband in locating the "missing" woman. No one has been contacted about her being deceased, so she might be among the injured or has not been found at the crash site. I'll watch local news at 11:00 for update.
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Terrible for the Family
 
  • #215
What I would like to see is a computer generated scenario. Exactly how and where the speed had to pick up to top out.
 
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) –A Naval Academy Midshipman is among the dead after an Amtrak train traveling from Washington to New York derails*in Philadelphia Tuesday night.

Rick Ritter*speaks to the midshipman’s*mother who describes him as*a natural leader who always put others before himself.

“The most wonderful kid”–that’s how Susan Zemser describes her son Justin– a Naval Academy Midshipman killed in Tuesdays devastating wreck.

A 4.0 student, the sophomore was a wide receiver on the Navy’s Sprint Football team.

20-year-old Zemser was on leave heading back home to Rockaway Beach, New York to see him mom, her only son.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/05/13/naval-midshipmen-among-dead-on-amtrak-train-derailment/
 
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  • #219
Brandon Bostian was the Engineer per CNN
 
  • #220
Isabelle said:
Yahoo reporting Engineer refused to speak to police and left police station with his lawyer. Sorry couldn't link.
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Maybe he needs to take some time so the drugs in his system can clear?

Hope I am wrong.
 
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