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Amtrak Train May Have Been Struck Before It Derailed, Officials Say
New Yoirk Times ^ | May 15, 2015 | DAVE PHILIPPS and EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

Posted on 05/15/2015 4:20:44 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

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To: MeshugeMikey

Remember the TWA flight? The one with the center fuel problem?

What if it was terrorism and there really was an explosion? Would the government tell us?

The only reason they admitted to terrorism on 9/11 was because they couldn’t cover up 4 hijacked planes.


61 posted on 05/15/2015 4:54:14 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: MeshugeMikey

So...what does the onboard camera show ?


62 posted on 05/15/2015 4:54:44 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well, many people don’t. I design electrical systems, but I was a busboy in college. Many college students work crap jobs.


63 posted on 05/15/2015 4:56:02 PM PDT by EEGator
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64 posted on 05/15/2015 4:56:27 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Levin just said he had been doing that route for five years.


65 posted on 05/15/2015 4:56:31 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: UCANSEE2

there an onboard camera?


66 posted on 05/15/2015 4:56:50 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

The phone records going to be released or something along that line, so getting a cover story before those hit. Friday news dump


67 posted on 05/15/2015 4:56:56 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: MeshugeMikey

Wouldn’t radio comm be recorded so this alleged transmission could be confirmed or denied? And If this transmission occurred, the receiver should be able to confirm.


68 posted on 05/15/2015 4:57:23 PM PDT by matt1234
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Im certain that Mark got that facts straight before “announcing” them. Yes


69 posted on 05/15/2015 4:57:32 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: UCANSEE2

I bet it turn up ‘disabled’?


70 posted on 05/15/2015 4:57:47 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: EEGator

Regardless, cannot we agree that one criteria to be labeled a “good train engineer” is that you don’t crash your train? And kill a bunch of people in the process?

Off topic, what kinds of electrical systems do you work on, radio, computer, power...?


71 posted on 05/15/2015 4:58:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: matt1234

I would suspect that any interchanges would have been recorded..but that doesnt mean we will ever know what was “dicussed”.


72 posted on 05/15/2015 4:58:36 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Hold mah Panther Whizz and watch this.


73 posted on 05/15/2015 4:59:08 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: MeshugeMikey

And that other Amtrack employee hasn’t seen fit to report it to the authorities since Tuesday.

Until now we have this one person overheard Brandon Bostian’s conversation on the radio. Which made headline news.

Right.


74 posted on 05/15/2015 4:59:36 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Yes. At least two cams. One facing forward.


75 posted on 05/15/2015 4:59:58 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: ladyjane

Would the government tell us? Fat Chance!

planning an attack to make a dangerous curve part of the accepted scenario sounds islamic to me


76 posted on 05/15/2015 5:00:32 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: cripplecreek

*snort*


77 posted on 05/15/2015 5:00:45 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: bert

“The strike over putting firemen back in the engines will come later this year”

The RR’s paid off the unions to get them removed. They paid off based on seniority.

The money was to make up for the extra work over the future years of employment.

My BIL was very happy to get the fat check ... till I told him the unions ripped him off.

He had many years to go before retirement and got the ‘small’ check. The dude retiring the next month got the ‘big’ check!


78 posted on 05/15/2015 5:00:52 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: cripplecreek

ahahahah ZOOOOM


79 posted on 05/15/2015 5:00:57 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I agree, he seems to be at fault. Something hitting the train seems meaningless to me. He was still going 106mph.

I work in the power industry.


80 posted on 05/15/2015 5:01:31 PM PDT by EEGator
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