“The real question is why are trains even designed to go over the speed limit in the first place.”
Well engines are designed with lots of power to adjust to the load they’re pulling. Maybe that’s why?
Everyone should read D-bag Shumer’s comment at the link.
““It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation of PTC, and to deny a connection between the accident and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who called claims to the contrary “patently false.”
Translation: Give more money to my union friends.