Posted on 02/06/2018 10:52:56 AM PST by Red Badger
Edited on 02/06/2018 11:34:42 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A high-speed Amtrak train bound for Penn Station broke apart as it was cruising through Maryland on Tuesday, sources told The Post. Modal Trigger A high-speed Amtrak train bound for Penn Station broke apart as it was moving at top speed through Maryland.
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Why are they even allowed to operate at this point? Seriously?
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times means enemy action.
Strange how everything seems to be falling apart since that memo became unclassified.
But I’m sure there’s a logical explanation for the coincidence.
Or declassified rather.
Not clear from the -typically lousy writing! - what happened. Obviously, the coupler broke completely, or lost its “locking pin” and opened up to release the cars behind - but the did the hoses remain hooked up and that was what was pulling the cars behind as the train slowed?
The following car(s) would not have automatically tripped on their brakes unless the air hoses themselves were broken. So what did the engineer do? How did he know the coupling opened up - a phone call from behind in the back cars?
No chains to back up the hitch/connector?
With 53 passengers the question is how can they afford to operate? Once again proving that 19th century passenger technology only works if it is heavily subsided. How many more decades will it take for Amtrack to realize a breakeven point on this route alone?
That skinny airhose must be really tough to keep the train cars together. That big coupling not so much.
“decoupled” and “breaking apart” are two very different things. From the headline you’d think one of the cars busted open and spilled passengers all over the tracks.
Where was the GOP going this time?
The overall fatality rate for long-haul train service is 0.43 per billion passenger miles. Excluding pedestrians and others not on trains — 64% of total fatalities assigned to railroads — the fatality rate is approximately 0.15 per billion passenger miles.
Amtrack is the symbol of the utter dysfunction, failure, and neglect displayed by those in power at every level in this country for decades: City, State, and Federal.
19th Century technology indeed. And more obviously: how are trains supposed expected to run in the thick of SWAMP?
DRAIN IT ALL PLEASE!
They can't.
There are 120,000 species on Earth that fly but only one that takes a train.
Actually four major ones due to AMTRAK driver/switching errors ... Philadelphia 2015 (too fast), Washington State 2017 (too fast), South Carolina 2018 (head on collision) and this one.
Typical government-run anything...typical.
Amtrak is more dangerous than Kabul Afghanistan. That is what you get with government Transportation. Amtrak should shut down right now and be sold to the highest bidder.
A train, passenger or freight, breaks to the point of crashing about every 18 hours in this country. Been that way for decades. Just sometimes the news networks are paying attention, especially this time of year when the news cycle slows down.
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