Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Mark Nowlin / The Seattle Times
Posted on 12/19/2017 4:07:00 AM PST by servo1969
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Mark Nowlin / The Seattle Times
Someone is in serious trouble.
a RePlay of the old story of Casey Jones?
They still are not mentioning the Earth First terror activity? Is this a news blackout?
Excellent presentation, servo.
Condolences to all the casualties/families.
Oh my, what a mess :-\
EF is doubtless a nest of maggots, but this seems to be a major league case of driver fubar.
Nine figures spent for 10 minutes. If the engineer was speeding, 3 guesses why.
Amtrak should be privatized.
Looks like they wanted to open the shore line to developments. Somebody is going to make 9 figures.
We do the same thing on highway projects all the time because politicians are afraid to tell commuters to live closer to their jobs but want to be seen "doing something" about congestion.
Good enuf fer government work.
Amtrak exists for one reason: the Acela service in the NE. Privatize Amtrak. If its Acela users like it so dang much, they can bloody well pay for it.
Other considerations involved. Along Nisqually Reach is a series of low cliffs that the old BNSF freight track set up against. Falling rocks and minor landslides were a ongoing problem with that section of rail.
Was it?
This is the third passenger train to derail on a curve due to excessive speed. Amtrak in North Philly (5/12/15) and NY Metro-North at Spuyten Duyvil (12/1/13) are the others. Being a RR fan and historian, I don’t recall seeing these types of crashes happening in this frequency in the past.
Marijuana?
“If the engineer was speeding, 3 guesses why.
I’ll take “affirmative action hire” for $1000, please.
What do you think about this?
Antifa Group Takes Down Web Page Promoting Train Derailments
In this situation, AMTRAK is a contractor to the States of Washington and Oregon. The States own the locomotives, rail cars and a portion of the rail right of way, not AMTRAK.
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