Posted on 05/13/2015 4:56:19 AM PDT by nuconvert
This accident looks like it may end up being due to going to fast around that turn.
I think he was going too fast
This was on Drudge.....
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/05/flashback-fbi-warns-of-train-derailment-threat/
Loco in question. 8600 hp, but maybe too light to stay on rails?
Looks like concrete ties.
Think about it: every heavily-laden wheel that passes over any point on any rail is like submitting it to cold-forging or cold-rolling forces.
Sooner or late, some degree of metal fatigue will occur...
yeah, Gateway likes to jump to posting that sort of thing
Death is our constant traveling companion, regardless of how or where we’re traveling.
Well said.
Drudge was the one that pulled it from Gateway and has it at the top of the page.
I understand that, And Drudge is known for being a headline whore
Not driverless, but enforcement for the drivers - systems that make it impossible to exceed speed limits or drive on track where there’s another train. It’s called Positive Train Control. I’ve worked on such systems for almost a decade now. It’s a hard problem but there’s a lot of people working on it. Incidentally my expertise in that area is what me think driverless cars are a pipe dream.
That's quite a leap you took right there, P-M. Sarcasm aside.
Well, whatever, doesn’t mean it’s not possible and it was discussed on FR in 2003 when the info came out.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/908164/posts
I guess ABC was the original headline whore being fed by the FBI.
That point is made even in the clever Nast cartoon from over 140 years ago, as the background shows both a train and a ship.
The Right Scoop has a story about the possibility that projectiles—perhaps bullets—struck the windshields of a SEPTA train and this AMTRAK train. I’m uncertain that the photos validate this theory. But, neither am I confident that if these ARE bullet holes that the investigators would tell us. After all, the 100’s of eyewitnesses who watched a missile spiral upwards and destroy a plane over Long Island couldn’t possibly have seen what they saw, right?
http://therightscoop.com/are-these-bullet-holes-in-the-windshield-of-the-amtrak-that-derailed/
It's where we are headed. If we don't need people to do the jobs or drive the cars and trains, then eventually we will not need people for anything. Eventually we will all be replaced by computers.
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