SEPTA Says Commuter Train Hit By Projectile Just Before Amtrak Train Derailed

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/05/13/septa-says-commuter-train-hit-by-projectile-just-before-amtrak-train-derailed/ ^ | May 13. 2015 | no attribution

[Genoa]

GMTA

[MeshugeMikey]

would YOUTH DO THIS?? In urban pennsylvania? very likely

[hoosiermama]

3 miles apart?
20 minutes?

Two broken windows?

Are those the facts?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Didn’t Obama already say that poverty was a big factor in terrorism? I guess we the world can just buy ourselves happiness and peace and long life. We should be able to just give cash-4-criminals like we did cash-4-clunkers and change the entire nature of mankind.

[MortMan]

How about “Commuter train struck by object 3 miles from scene of Amtrak Derailing”?

I would hope that “professional” headline writers could do better than this broken down technical document reviewer/writer... LOL

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

LOL! You win again. That is perfect. I guess it isn’t so hard.

[Genoa]

Good work. And you could delete “scene of” for length and still have a good headline.

[MortMan]

Danged editors! ;-P

[no-to-illegals]

Move Along ... Reach out and touch the face of ‘There is no hint of terrorism!’

[cuban leaf]

Video suggests the train was speeding.

[EBH]

Either it was Islamics or the House already has a hearing convened on RR regulations. Weird.

[cuban leaf]

Kids throwing rocks at trains?

[no-to-illegals]

Reach out and touch your things?

[Dawn53Fl]

A Philadelphia commuter train was hit by a projectile about 20 minutes before an Amtrak train derailed a few miles up the track.

Now that's one heck of a coincidence.

Projectile at one train and derailment of another within 20 minutes of each other, a few miles from each other, and they're "random" train incidents? Seems "coordinated" to me, even though the SEPTA train did not sustain damage.

[A CA Guy]

And Jerry brown wants hundreds of miles of unguarded trains at billions.

[Genoa]

Could have been the same perp.

[cuban leaf]

And Jerry brown wants hundreds of miles of unguarded trains at billions.

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Well, at least it’s better than wasting the money on dumb desalinization plants. :-D

[no-to-illegals]

Gather round but don’t expect a story cause they were a peaceful band .... but when their crop grew poppies not one poppy was destroyed ... and the heroine was not pure or near pure ... raise the flag and lower it because ... there is a lonely ‘bitch’ in our White House and the ghost flies thirsty ....

[NFHale]

SEPTA and AMTRAK are two completely different entities.

[IYAS9YAS]

It it me, or does the headline seem to imply two separate trains?

It does, and the article confirms. A local(?) commuter train was hit by a projectile about 20 minutes before the AMTRAK train derailed. They were also a few miles apart with regard to each incident.