[Conscience of a Conservative]

Not surprised about the CSX freight train in the area. Although Amtrack uses the rails, I was told years ago that the tracks belongs to the freight train companies.

Yup. That's one reason there are so many delays on Amtrak trains - they may be scheduled to use the rails, but the CSX trains have priority on most of the track Amtrak uses.

[tcrlaf]

Dem Congressman Patrick Murphy was on this train.

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Im on @Amtrak train that just crashed. Im ok. Helping others. Pray for those injured

[Biggirl]

That I was told while being on an Amtrack train when it had to stop for that very reason.

Here is more stuff from the Blaze:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/05/12/several-injured-after-amtrak-train-from-washington-crashes-in-philadelphia/?utm_source=TheBlaze.com&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=story&utm_content=several-injured-after-amtrak-train-from-washington-crashes-in-philadelphia&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Cementjungle]

Yup. That's one reason there are so many delays on Amtrak trains - they may be scheduled to use the rails, but the CSX trains have priority on most of the track Amtrak uses.

A lot of tracks around Philly are also used by SEPTA (local commuter rail), so you have three different entities sharing the rails. They do a pretty complex dance every day to manage the traffic, and it doesn't take much to have a serious screw up. Fortunately, trains generally go relatively slowly in that area... which probably helped a lot.