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Speed Control Was Installed, Not On at Time of Amtrak Crash
U.S.News ^
| May 14, 2015
| By Alan Neuhauser
Posted on 05/15/2015 11:16:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: McGruff
Maybe the evil Mossad sabotaged the train to get back at the President’s wise policies towards the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands and their oppression of the Palestinian peoples.
To: Publius
The place where the accident occurred has a speed reduction from 80 mph to 50 mph due to the curve at Frankford Junction. The clown that was driving the train was moving at 106 mph through the 80 mph zone, and he hit the 50 mph zone at 102 mph.
FYI. According to the NTSB, the train was traveling at 70mph until one mile before the turn and then accelerated to 107mph going into the turn when the emergency braking was applied. This was information that was released late yesterday.
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posted on
05/15/2015 1:44:23 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: PA Engineer
this could have been done remotely, like what was done to that journalist whose Mercedes ran into a pole at 100+ mph and killed him.
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posted on
05/15/2015 1:47:56 PM PDT
by
uncitizen
(Pamela Geller - Peaceful Protestor)
To: Jim Robinson
So this system uses a radio link??..and what happens if someone decides to jam or hack the link?
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posted on
05/15/2015 2:10:44 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
“So it is on the track and not on the train? That’s interesting.”
Paragraph 4:
“The tracks had PTC, the train had PTC,” Harris says.
To: Jim Robinson
Well, that’s obviously a result of underfunding!
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posted on
05/15/2015 3:26:00 PM PDT
by
Washi
To: TexasGator
Thank you. I missed that.
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posted on
05/15/2015 3:53:31 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: Prospero
Will it sorta be like the trial of CASEY JONES??? (wait! does anyone even remember that legendary tale? prolly not!)
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posted on
05/15/2015 5:19:49 PM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(Help Stamp Out Pernicious Progressives and Arrogant Activists With Their Liberalism!!!)
To: Jim Robinson
The more one considers this event the more one wonders if this was not intentional. I think the mental case put in charge as an engineer attempted to murder every passenger and kill himself. What engineer would not be able to sense a train going 106 mph versus 50 mph. He did not lose consciousness, he knew exactly what he was doing but he failed to kill himself and all a board.
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posted on
05/16/2015 8:37:42 AM PDT
by
Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
To: tcrlaf
50,000+ trains passed that same curve without a hint of a problem, yet this one is going over TWICE the allowed speed.””
It was an Intentional act.
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posted on
05/16/2015 8:39:39 AM PDT
by
Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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