Train carrying GOP congressmen to retreat in accident

I'm just noting some 'curiosities' in the reporting here. Do you have a source that states or shows #145 was the leader? Reports I saw said that the locomotive derailed. If that is true then the odds that it would have been removed from the scene by the time the photo in #124 was taken are very slim. Thus it does seem that the lead locomotive is in Amtrak phase 5 paint, not Heritage phase 3. Also I have found info that #145 was painted into the Heritage theme but nothing about it being repainted back to phase 5.

Then there is the photo on Jeff Denham's Twitfeed that purports to be his photo, but has the CBS logo on it so it is not certain that it is an actual photo from today or one grabbed by the network so they could put up a wrecked Amtrak photo. As a matter of fact, CBS Twitfeed is now posting this photo which still does not reveal the loco's number but also does not show what should be the lead loco in Heritage phase 3.

So if you're a trainperson, you can see that there are some gaps in the info. By the way GG-1, you don't have any cracks in your casting do you? ;-)

I took “derailed” to mean partially - not like flew off the tracks. I think it was Flake saying it seemed like it a controlled stop - but took a quarter mile before they stopped. Thats why Im assuming that #4 is the trailing engine seen at the impact area. I have no source for 145 as leader - other than the assumption from the damage. There are pictures on this site that show 145 in Heritage as recent as June 2017.

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4727478

And seems like you have to go back to 2009 or so find the other paint scheme seen on #4

At 3:49 EST on the Fox broadcast, the damaged RW&B striped 145 locomotive is shown alone uncoupled on the tracks. The solid gray sided locomotive coupled to the back and pulled the passenger cars from the scene as shown live? at 12:49 EST on Fox.

Hey Mears,

Remember how I said I don’t mind this sort of stuff because it may be some kind of drill?

Turns out it might not have been a drill.

https://www.opdeepstate.com/2018/02/01/gop-train-crash-no-coincidence/

Congress was supposed to be in session, and it wasn’t just Congress critters going. Their families were with them on a school day. Might have been an active threat.

It’s just one source.

Interesting times. Ran across this on Zero Hedge in the comments section of one of the posts.

Thanks for that————I wasn’t aware that family was with them,other than spouses.

I guess I’m going to have to adjust my thinking.:-)

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