None of the cars ended up in the water. The lead car came close.
Unfortunately, I would guess the conductor fell asleep. Early Sunday morning after big weekend. Probably never saw it coming.
Hopefully, (for his sake) it was mechanical failure, but as another post said, he was over the speed limit by 12 miles per hour entering the sharpest turn on the route.
I’m surprised there are not automatic warning alarms on trains when they exceed speeds or are not slowing down appropriately. Hell, my $200 portable garmin navi knows the speed limits on every road I travel and my speed (on the navi) turns red when I exceed the posted limit. How this isn’t incorporated into these trains makes no sense.
Maybe he was trying to drift the train into the station?
Kinda like trike drifting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNZCZsHJIR8
I’m surprised there are not automatic warning alarms on trains when they exceed speeds or are not slowing down appropriately. Hell, my $200 portable garmin navi knows the speed limits on every road I travel and my speed (on the navi) turns red when I exceed the posted limit. How this isn’t incorporated into these trains makes no sense.
Think about it ... do you really need a crew of 4 union members at all ... Ricky the robot could do it all, hence the fatal flaw in you reasoning.
How this [speed detecting tech] isn’t incorporated into these trains makes no sense.
The union probably doesn’t want the trains to be smarter than its members...