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To: BlueDragon
Portable derails are not designed to be effective at high speeds. The new ones are fabricated and are of rather chintzy construction. The serrated back portion is really only effective on wood crossties, not concrete ties like on the NEC. Still, setting a derail (properly) on the outside rail of a 50 MPH, 4° curve would probably cause a derailment.

I am mostly concerned about the post in this tread saying that any eyewitness on the scene last night reporting not only a crater, but an FBI presence keeping people away from it... yet, immediately, there is a narrative saying that this was definitely not terrorism.

Somewhere out there I am sure there is a YouTube video, or a Draw Mohammed event that this might be blamed on.... but the first agenda to fill will be to say that our transportation infrastructure is crumbling, or there was some "failure in training"... or since most of these injuries and deaths were a result of people and objects flying all over the place inside the car.... some Federal edict will come out with even more ridiculous crashworthiness directives, full carbody interior hazard evaluation studies and retrofitting... and of course the ever popular "This would not have happened if we had Positive Train Control" narrative.

I look forward to the facts here.

Having been on-site doing investigation for many, MANY derailments, it's not that difficult to put the pieces together if it was a mechanical, operational, or track failure.

268 posted on 05/13/2015 6:53:29 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/national/surveillance-video-shows-moment-amtrak-train-derai/nmFmJ/


270 posted on 05/13/2015 6:59:22 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: Rodamala

Particularly any of the nine stolen in Texas, back in the year 2003. Or else I would wonder ---- why hold onto a device for that long, if ill intent was motive for stealing the things in the first place.

People here seemed to have been recycling an old news item as if it was recent.

That was the only point I was trying to make.

But thanks for the remainder of your efforts to discuss these things.

312 posted on 05/13/2015 11:50:29 AM PDT by BlueDragon
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