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To: Lizavetta

“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.”


29 posted on 05/15/2015 11:39:32 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak

Translation: Give more money to my union friends.

33 posted on 05/15/2015 11:44:19 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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