Amtrak Train May Have Been Struck Before It Derailed, Officials Say

New Yoirk Times ^ | May 15, 2015 | DAVE PHILIPPS and EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

[MeshugeMikey]

PHILADELPHIA — An assistant conductor on the Amtrak train that derailed on Tuesday believes she heard the engineer tell another regional train operator in a radio transmission that the train had been struck by something just before the accident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

At a news conference on Friday, Robert L. Sumwalt, the safety board official who is leading the investigation, said the F.B.I. had been asked to examine what he described as a fist-size impact area found on the lower left side of the train’s windshield. Officials said that the F.B.I. had been called in because it has the forensics expertise needed for the investigation, but that it had not yet begun its analysis.

[MeshugeMikey]

SEPTA, Amtrak trains hit by projectiles minutes before fatal crash Philly.com-May 13, 2015 The windshield of the SEPTA train that was hit by a projectile. ... and another Amtrak train in the same corridor were hit by projectiles, one which ...

SEPTA train hit by projectile minutes before Amtrak crash in Philly Pittsburgh Post-Gazette-May 13, 2015 Train on same corridor as Amtrak was hit by 'projectile' minutes ... Daily Mail-May 13, 2015

SEPTA and Acela Trains Struck Before Amtrak Crash [UPDATED] Philadelphia Magazine (blog)-May 13, 2015

SEPTA train was stalled on tracks when Amtrak train derailed ahead PhillyVoice.com-May 13, 2015

EPTA and Acela Trains Struck Before Amtrak Crash

the LINK

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/05/13/amtrak-crash-septa-projectile/

the MAP....

SEPTA officials have confirmed that an "unknown projectile" broke the engineer's window on a SEPTA Regional Rail train on Tuesday night along the same corridor as the deadly Amtrak crash. And according to a passenger on the 8 p.m. Acela train from New York to Philadelphia, that train was struck as well.

According to SEPTA, train number 769 was on its way to Trenton from Philadelphia when an object hit the engineer's window, breaking it. After the incident was reported, the train was held at the North Philadelphia station.

Read more at http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/05/13/amtrak-crash-septa-projectile/#xZVYVFUl8S4Exg3B.99 i think we all are ahead of this game...SOMEHOW....

[hondact200]

the Amish were upset and starting throwing shoofly pies at the train, because it missed their stop where they wanted to board the train. gotta be careful of those irate Amish and shoofly pies they can really do a number on train windshields./s

[GilGil]

Good to know. Whether something hit the train or not does not explain why the train sped up to above 100 mph in a 50 mph zone.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Gawd, I was typing too fast on the tablet. LOL!

[MeshugeMikey]

Ping and let me ADD this new old data that I didnt see the other day

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/05/13/amtrak-crash-septa-projectile/

THREE TRAINS hit my projectiles according ti that article...

[Theoria]

That is odd. Two trains are reportedly hit by projectiles within 5 min, and then the third train now ‘appears’ to have been hit as well, 20 min later.

[MeshugeMikey]

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/05/13/amtrak-crash-septa-projectile/

three...trains got hit...according to this one....

I think were being lied to...or not told the whole truth...or something....

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

That is what was heard on the witnesses radio I’ll bet!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[Publius]

The location of these possible projectile incidents is in the heart of darkness in North Philadelphia. In my youth the neighborhood was central and eastern European, but it changed. Its inhabitants occasionally refer to it as “the jungle.”

[matt1234]

Correct. And the article in this thread is based on the claim of an amtrack employee who is a coworker of the engineer. Let’s not forget that union brothers and sisters may bend over backwards to protect each other, especially when pressured from higher up. This employee’s claims need to be independently verified.

[Sir Napsalot]

We knew about the SEPTA train hit "by a projectile". And I don't recall reading that SEPTA engineer said anything about talking to Brandon Bostian. But this story is about the derailed AMTRACK train hit "by a projectile", and thus investigated by FBI.

(excerpt) "The windshield of the Amtrak train was shattered in the accident but one area of glass had a breakage pattern that could be consistent with being hit by an object, he said, and the FBI is investigating."

[MeshugeMikey]

there were THREE trains that various sources are claiming to have been hit

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/05/13/amtrak-crash-septa-projectile/

[MeshugeMikey]

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/05/13/amtrak-crash-septa-projectile/

this article has three trains having been hit!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

We need the dispatch recordings.

[EEGator]

I’d rather take on snipers than get stuck in North Philly.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Of course it is because he is gay. He intentionally accelerated the train to 106 mph in a 50 mph zone. He should be charged with murder one.

[MeshugeMikey]

I somehow had a dreadful sense of “knowing” that when the report of the mysterious “projectile” first was reported.

Middle class white kids...asian kids..ETC...do not throw dangerous projectiles at other’s properties

other stuff yes....

three trains three pokectiles
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/05/13/amtrak-crash-septa-projectile/

[MeshugeMikey]

I dont think that YOUT are that well coordinated...

[MeshugeMikey]

hitting a bran door thats traveling at 70 miles an hour would require a tremdous “arm”

somebody in the NFL would want to talk to whoever threw that “pass”