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Am I wrong to assume that the same rule applies to trains that you are supposed to slow your speed when you drive around curves?
1 posted on 07/25/2013 9:23:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
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radioed that the train entered the bend at 120 mph

That will do it.

2 posted on 07/25/2013 9:24:18 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

Going 120mph in a 80mph turn? Both drivers should be hanged.


3 posted on 07/25/2013 9:26:26 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Kaslin

Driver #1: “ i was not in control at that time. Driver #2 was and was sexting with Anthony Weiner at the time.


4 posted on 07/25/2013 9:29:50 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Kaslin

It’s very odd. The train could run on both high speed tracks and regular tracks, and had a separate safety device for each system. The driver would have had to have selected the system, which for that part of track, actually would have been the high speed system because the whole track is being prepared for the AVE, which runs only high-speed.

They entered at about 120 mph. However, that part of the track was set for 80 km per hour (about 50 mph) and the driver had been doing the route for about a year and had 30 years altogether with the train company. Also, one of the analysts said that the curve isn’t that severe and while 190 kmh wasn’t advisable, it shouldn’t have made the train derail.

Very strange. They haven’t read the black box yet. However, the judge is charging the driver (who is in the hospital), possibly just to keep him there.


5 posted on 07/25/2013 9:53:27 AM PDT by livius
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To: a fool in paradise

Has the KTVU station in Oakland announced the driver’s name yet?


6 posted on 07/25/2013 10:00:06 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Kaslin

Any Catholic Freeper would LOVE the pilgrim Church here and you can YouTube what they do with the incense burner that;s 5ft tall.....it’s UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!


8 posted on 07/25/2013 10:17:09 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

Here’s a link to the Youtube video by itself so you can avoid the dreadful commercials on Fox News (that CANNOT be turned off, skipped or muted):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH_IjAxDwLo


10 posted on 07/25/2013 10:34:50 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Kaslin

Was his name Abdul?


11 posted on 07/25/2013 10:38:26 AM PDT by angcat
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To: Kaslin

This news report must come either from a British source or one that uses British English. In England, a locomotive operator is known as a train driver; in America, he’s an engineer.


12 posted on 07/25/2013 10:46:02 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Kaslin

Dreadful. RIP.


13 posted on 07/25/2013 12:17:43 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Kaslin

Can’t help but look at that train video and think of Amerika coming around the spending curve. That is what’s going to happen economically.


14 posted on 07/25/2013 12:42:51 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( EVERY DIME Obama Spends is given to him by the Republicans in the House.)
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To: Kaslin

Choo Choo Train Bit that always leaves me laughing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CSFHjelz44


15 posted on 07/25/2013 1:01:20 PM PDT by GraceG
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