To: GIdget2004
hmmmmm....... I doubt there is an Amtrack train capable of reaching 100 mph
2 posted on
05/13/2015 9:54:22 AM PDT by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
To: GIdget2004; Biggirl; JimSEA
An Amtrak train involved in a fatal crash here appears to have been traveling at more than 100 miles an hour..........................
3 posted on
05/13/2015 9:54:25 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: GIdget2004
Speed kills . . . but I’m sure that train always sped past their curve - had a history of it. It would certainly be a factor for consideration if terrorists did indeed choose this as an optimal target.
4 posted on
05/13/2015 9:54:34 AM PDT by
Pilgrim's Progress
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To: GIdget2004
5 posted on
05/13/2015 9:55:14 AM PDT by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: GIdget2004
Report: Amtrak train was traveling more than 100 mph as it entered a sharp curve before derailing, sources tell @WSJ
6 posted on
05/13/2015 9:55:23 AM PDT by
McGruff
(What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
To: GIdget2004
Did the engineer lock himself in and yell Allahu Akbar?
7 posted on
05/13/2015 9:55:25 AM PDT by
Raycpa
To: GIdget2004
After what happened in Japan in 2005 at the Amagasaki train crash west of Osaka that killed over 100 people due to excessive speed approaching a sharp curve, the West Japan Railway Company aggressively installed a lot more Automatic Train Stop (ATS) warning systems on the track. Maybe it’s time for the railroads on the Northeast Corridor to install ATS at every critical point on the track to prevent overspeeding, which may have caused this accident.
8 posted on
05/13/2015 9:56:15 AM PDT by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: GIdget2004
Nothing to see here...just excessive speed...no need to panic.
9 posted on
05/13/2015 9:57:21 AM PDT by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: GIdget2004
This train has a “black Box”.
They’ll know how fast this was going by this afternoon.
12 posted on
05/13/2015 10:01:41 AM PDT by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: GIdget2004
A hundred mph is hard to believe. I don’t know about the passenger locomotive models that Amtrak uses, but most locomotives have a top speed of 70mph. Also, there are usually onboard systems that limit the top speed of the locomotive, and will drop power and apply a penalty brake application if that speed is exceeded, and an engineer cannot override those systems.
The only way to know is to retreive the event recorder (locomotive “black box”), and look at the data.
16 posted on
05/13/2015 10:11:36 AM PDT by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: GIdget2004
Driving that train
High on cocaine...
21 posted on
05/13/2015 10:29:02 AM PDT by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: GIdget2004
I just learned that the daughter of a friend was badly injured in that train wreck. Say a prayer for Geralyns recovery.
23 posted on
05/13/2015 10:31:41 AM PDT by
Ditter
To: GIdget2004
Maybe AMTRACK should teach its engineers Newton’s 1st law of inertia.
There is a reason it is called “A LAW”!!!
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