yea THAT might just do it... cars that can do a sharp curve at 100mph are rare...trains..?? probably far far more rare
How fast is that train supposed to travel?
Well, Did the conductor do the next best thing since he couldn't nose dive from 30,000 ft into a mountain side?
...or mechanical?
Who needs terrorists when our own stupidity and negligence does damage like this?
Train was running 10 minute late on departure.
Trying to make up time.
Somebody wanted to get the heck away from Philly.
When I took Amtrak it seemed like it was always going at least that fast.
and what speed should it have been traveling at the time?
Need to check what the tracks were made of... I told them to use Rearden Steel, but nooooo...
The speed of the train had absolutely nothing to do with the crash.
It was caused by lack of funding and infrastructure spending by Republicans.
The White House came out with this just about an hour ago.
And so the “Media” will now Parrot , and so shall it be written...
Supposedly the limit was 50 around that curve.
How is this possible?
amazing... I would have bet that there were systems that would have have governed the speed. Especially in perilous areas.
So with one trillion spent on infrastructure since 2010...
Have no fear! Hillary’s college sweetheart is on the job!
http://spectator.org/blog/19143/amtrak-ig-probe-who-eleanor-acheson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_D._Acheson
Wreck of the Old 97
(G B Grayson & Henry Whittier)
They gave him his orders in Monroe Virginia
Sayin’ Steve you’re way behind time
This is not 38, this is ol’ 97
You must put her into Spencer on time
He turned around and said to his black greasy fireman
Better shovel on a little more coal
And when we cross that White Oak Mountain
You can watch 97 roll
It’s a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville
With the line on a three-mile grade
It was on that grade that he lost his airbrakes
You can see what a jump he made
He was goin’ down the hill makin’ 90 miles an hour
When the whistle began to scream
They found him in the wreck with his hand on the throttle
He’d been scalded to death by the steam
A Telegram came from Washington station and this is how it read
The brave engineer who ran 97 is lying in Danville dead
So come all you ladies, you must take warnin’
From this time on and learn
Never speak harsh words to your true lovin’ husbands
They may leave you and never return
Reminds me of what happened in Italy a while back, same set of circumstances, going way too fast, except in Italy I think the train hit a guardrail
UPDATE: Navy midshipman killed in #Amtrak188 crash ID’d as 20-year-old Justin Zemser of NYC
So sad, a Navy midshipman and so young..may he and the other victims RIP
Probably rushing to pick up Biden?
Now that’s putting the petal to the metal but on a 50 mph curve, it was destined to not work....
Was the seat belt sign on? /sarc