Posted on 02/04/2018 7:43:23 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Two dead and 70 passengers are injured as Amtrak train smashes into freight carriages in South Carolina
At least two people have died and dozens more are seriously injured after a passenger train smashed into freight carriages in South Carolina.
Officials said more than 70 people had been transported to local hospitals after the Amtrak service flew off the line. Several of those injured suffered broken bones. It's still unclear if any of the passengers are being treated for life-threatening injuries.
The crash occurred around 2.30am when the Amtrak service, traveling between New York and Miami, collided with the CSX freight train, which was carrying diesel.
The train company said that 139 passengers and eight members of crew were on board at the time and emergency services were currently treating the injured.
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Sooo what caused this crash?
Hit from behind - or head on?
More shades of Atlas Shrugged...
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone was awake to drive these trains in the middle of the night?
This was on another thread, I just rode this train a couple of weeks ago, and there was a delay in the SC regarding “a problem with the switch”...
Our nation's transportation systems can't handle the heated up economy. Trump's fault. /s
Fire and Fury
“Freight Carriages” ???
I always heard them called freight cars or boxcars......
NEVER heard the term carriages......
tracks, signals, dispatch, and switches are all owned and run by CSX. Looks like one of those trains wasn’t on the track it was supposed to be on and thats all on CSX.
From what I understand, there is supposed to be a considerable separation between passenger trains and freight trains. They should not have not gotten that close.
RIP.
So this news about a train wreck last night with scores of injured winds up in chat. Over in News we have articles like “What do you think of Trump’s State of the Union...”
Chat often has newsier news.
Anyone want to place bets on the number of ‘accidents’ or ‘tragedies’ that happen today?
I wouldn’t be going to the Super Bowl, that’s for sure.
Putting high speed passenger trains on slow bulk freight transportation system.
Maybe carriages are what they’re called, over in the UK. This is a DM article. (Where we get USA news, that the American media won’t report :)
“Freight Carriages” ???
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Remember the source....
Daily Mail ... UK Different names in other countries
“Freight carriages? “
Don’t you know the Queen’s English?
It’s from the UK’s Daily Mail. The British have a number of terms that are slightly different from the one we use in the USA, e.g. car terms “bonnet” instead of “hood” and “boot” instead of “trunk”. You buy a “return” ticket instead of a “round trip” ticket, etc.
That’s a British term — like lorries (for trucks).
You gotta remember, this is a Limey newspaper. Thus, the term, “carriage.”
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