Posted on 05/16/2015 1:36:20 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
A passenger traveling along the same route the night that Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia told NBC News that an object hit his train, shattering the window.
The account from Johns Hopkins student Justin Landis makes him the third person to report a projectile hitting a train Tuesday night in that area, and comes a day after the National Transportation Safety Board said investigators were working to determine whether something struck the doomed Amtrak train before it derailed. Eight people were killed and about 200 others were injured in the accident.
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I wish the public schools would teach people how to write.
I’m just glad terrorists have been reduced to throwing rocks.
Interesting, but seems like a canard. It does not explain how a projectile caused the train to speed up. The engineer was not unconscious as he applied the emergency break.
I’m waiting for someone to claim the train was hacked.
Okay a rock hits the window and an experienced engineers response is to panic, accelerate the train to over twice the safe speed and derail it resulting in the deaths of what eight passengers? Seems legit to me, let’s go find someone else to blame for the engineer’s actions.
They shouldn’t route trains through TEA party neighborhoods.
Those were not terrorists rocks. FBI said so the first hour or so.
NYT
>>Objects Hit Trains So Often There’s Term for It: Getting Rocked<<
the rock throwing blue haired great grandmas are at it again??
there;s probably about as much chance of that occurring, as there is of this story ever coming to a conclusion.
Perhaps, but were they automatic rocks that had room for more than 7 pebbles?
Well, a third person makes it seem more feasible. I still think it doesn’t add up. I don’t believe he really can’t remember. I do think he was speeding on purpose. From what I heard on the radio from other engineers, that is not uncommon. He also should not have pulled the emergency brake because at that point it was likely to cause the derailment.
But who knows. I think there are enough competing big gun interested parties in this that the truth will eventually be known.
I dont know how far away from the engine this particular car was but the engineer on this “other train” didnt appear to notice it.
They are desperately trying to distract from the truth - he loved trains, was polite, some foreign object hit the train, whatever - which is the train was SPEEDING at twice the speed limit.
That is operator error. Case closed.
this is of particular interest:
“Getting “rocked,” as locomotive engineers call it, is so common on the Northeast Corridor that trains long had metal grills over their windshields to act as armor. These days, thick glass is specifically designed to withstand the impact of a cinder block.”
LOL. What is that?
the D.C. sniper fiasco.
I wish I could remember the cops name
Chief Moose of DC Sniper fame looking for the cracker in the white van.
Charles MOOSE..?
maybe it was mooselims
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