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Amtrak Passenger Train and Freight Train Collide in Chicago
CNN ^ | 11/30/2007 | n/a

Posted on 11/30/2007 10:02:58 AM PST by Pyro7480

Breaking news: Amtrak passenger train and a freight train collide on Chicago's South Side.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: amtrak; amwreck; chicago; rail; wreck
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To: NativeNewYorker
Bush’s fault for underfunding train safety apparatus.

Billions for the Iraq war but nothing for choo choos.

21 posted on 11/30/2007 10:27:07 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: RDTF

Sure that would be easy enough. What you will not be able to prove is was the “injured” just standing close and “hurt” themselves getting away from the colliding trains.


22 posted on 11/30/2007 10:28:23 AM PST by Chuck54
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To: Young Werther

That movie gave us a chuckle when it was released. It began with the train leaving Toronto and ended with it arriving in Toronto going the same direction- until then we never realized that there were rail lines that circumnavigated the globe.


23 posted on 11/30/2007 10:29:18 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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To: RDTF
should be easy enough to prove if someone was on a train or not

Not necessarily if it's a commuter train, where tickets can be purchased with cash from simple automated kiosks...you don't even have to talk to a human.

Hoping that all the injuries are not serious....
24 posted on 11/30/2007 10:29:38 AM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; The majority are satisfied with a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: RDTF

:)Sounds good.


25 posted on 11/30/2007 10:30:20 AM PST by fatima
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To: RDTF

That means it’s probably the ST. Louis Run

Lincoln Service?


26 posted on 11/30/2007 10:32:07 AM PST by tcrlaf (You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
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To: tcrlaf

The Amtrak train, No. 371 from Grand Rapids, Mich


27 posted on 11/30/2007 10:36:26 AM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: tcrlaf
If that's true,It must be headed south.

The last time I took that train north to chi Town,I think we were in town way before 11:30

28 posted on 11/30/2007 10:37:45 AM PST by Cheapskate ( Celebrate Sept.8 as Pajamatag , the day the pajamahadeem busted Dan Rather!!)
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To: Aaron0617
Brings up a similuar accident in the same area about two years ago. Just posting incase this sound familiar to anyone else.
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NOTE FROM 2005 - Two Dead, Dozens Injured, Some Critically, In South Side Accident

(AP) A commuter train derailed Saturday on Chicago's South Side, killing at least two people and injuring more than 80, some of them critically.

The double-decker Metra train was traveling from Joliet to Chicago when the locomotive and its five cars jumped the tracks about 5 miles south of downtown, authorities said.

Fatal Train Derailment In Chicago

29 posted on 11/30/2007 10:39:19 AM PST by Aaron0617
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To: Aaron0617

An important task is keeping the boys in da ‘hood from robbing the dead and dying....


30 posted on 11/30/2007 10:43:58 AM PST by tracer
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To: Aaron0617
One positive note is the proximity of the accident to the University of Chicago and other top-notch trauma centers.

The air likely is full of medevac choppers at this time....

31 posted on 11/30/2007 10:46:05 AM PST by tracer
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To: tracer

And the lawyers no doubt have descended on the scene, the receiving hospitals, and the neighboring bars, pool halls, and street corners....


32 posted on 11/30/2007 10:48:08 AM PST by tracer
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To: Aaron0617
Then there is the below article. As you can tell we're having problems with our train services here on the south side of chicago. Prayers to those injured in today's accident.
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NOTE FROM SEPT 2007: 12 Railroad Spikes Found Missing On South Side's Electric Line


CHICAGO (CBS) ― The FBI believes a case of sabatoge that could have caused a train derailment was averted by alert Metra workers, who discovered a dozen railroad spikes missing in an area on the city's South Side.
The spikes hold down metal plates that bind the rails to wooden ties.

FBI: Metra Tracks Were 'Sabotaged'

33 posted on 11/30/2007 10:50:45 AM PST by Aaron0617
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To: tracer
I'll bet John Edwards is at the scene passing out his campaign brochures and his law firm's business cards.

Leni

34 posted on 11/30/2007 10:51:42 AM PST by MinuteGal (Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !!!)
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To: MinuteGal

Actually, he’s probably at AmTrak headquarters already and is shaking down the board of directors...


35 posted on 11/30/2007 11:11:39 AM PST by tracer
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To: tracer

UPDATE:

The train collided with a freight train traveling on the same track, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said.

About 100 of the 150 passengers were “walking wounded,” he said, injured when the train came to a sudden stop. Medical personnel was examining them.

The Amtrak No. 371 train was coming from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Video showed the Amtrak train on top of one of the freight train’s cars.
mtrak spokesman Cliff Black said Amtrak did not yet know the severity of the accident. Amtrak officials from Midwest Operations were en route to the scene.

Black said the train is known as “The Pere Marquette” and is a daily train that travels from Grand Rapids to Chicago.


36 posted on 11/30/2007 11:20:43 AM PST by Palladin ("How do we beat The Bitch?"--John McCain Supporter)
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To: Pyro7480

Why do they use the same tracks?


37 posted on 11/30/2007 11:22:34 AM PST by RockinRight (Just because you're pro-life and talk about God a lot doesn't mean you're a conservative.)
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To: Aaron0617; MinuteGal

Geeze, sabotage found on S. Side tracks a couple of months back....wonder if that was the case here, or if that info would be released if it were the case.

My husband rode the commuter trains for 18 years. The afternoon commutes on all lines may be disrupted some, obviously the south line substantially.

Prayers for the victims.


38 posted on 11/30/2007 11:31:40 AM PST by prairiebreeze (Fred '08 Because our troops DESERVE BETTER than Mrs. Bill Clinton.)
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To: RockinRight

Obviously they weren’t supposed to. They were traveling through a freight yard so speed should have been at slow yard limit unless they were on a faster bypass track. So the cause is one of four reasons — the engineer was speeding and could not stop in time, he ran a red signal, a signal malfunctioned, or the dispatcher routed him to a track already occupied. We will know soon enough as the modern engines have data recorders.


39 posted on 11/30/2007 11:34:20 AM PST by CedarDave (The only access Hillarycare will bring is access to a waiting list.)
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To: CedarDave

I went to CNN and found this

Hostages held at Clinton ‘08 office in New Hampshire


40 posted on 11/30/2007 11:36:46 AM PST by BurbankKarl
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