https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/video...rue&ocid=ientp
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ington-n830751
An Amtrak train has derailed and spilled onto the highway in Washington state. AP news reporting injuries and casualties.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/video...rue&ocid=ientp
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ington-n830751
An Amtrak train has derailed and spilled onto the highway in Washington state. AP news reporting injuries and casualties.
I read it may have been going max speed when it crashed (81 mph)
Rail racing must be the new street racing.
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News outlets receiving confirmations of fatalities and also that motorists on the road were injured in the crash.
Was thinking of Cheryl from that same episode but close enough
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From what I understand this particular railway was also the subject of a $180M+ improvement project starting back in 2010, so it striking something on the tracks makes more sense than mechanical failure of some kind, at least at first blush.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pas...t5R&ocid=ientp
This was the train's first run along the new route.
A friend of mine is an ER nurse at a Seattle hospital, I wonder if he's in the shit right now.
Basically the old route left Tacoma and went up to Point of Defiance and then along Puget Sound. This stretch of track is owned by BNSF so the passenger cars shared the same track as freight (and usually freight has the higher priority). Not only this, but the route itself had a lot of curves and tunnels which required the train to travel at a slower speed. The improvement project was to use an existing bypass line that was rarely used by freight which needed to be upgraded with new concrete ties and continuous welded track along with other safety measures (Positive Train Control, new gate guards/lights, etc). Sound Transit was first to use this line having trains from Lakewood to Tacoma, and once the rest of the rail was upgraded, Amtrak would use the full 14 miles of the bypass.
As for the accident itself, though the route allowed for speeds up to 79 MPH and the train was reported to be doing 81 MPH, it is possible that the suggested speed to take the turn right before the bridge had not been followed or known. If you look at a map of the tracks where the incident took place, you will see that it makes an S curve over the freeway.
What makes me wonder though is was there test runs of this new section done beforehand? Seems very suspicious that the first train on its first day derails and kills people.
Feel sorry for all those people who got killed by this.
Looks like PTC had not yet been installed and the curve had a speed limit of 30 mph...