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2 dead after Amtrak train strikes backhoe on tracks near Philadelphia
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| April 3, 2016
Posted on 04/03/2016 7:32:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
04/03/2016 7:32:11 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Not a backhoe. Some kind of Amtrak repair equipment and the two dead were in that.
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posted on
04/03/2016 7:37:12 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
To: Kaslin
“Whut we got heyah, is faya, to communicate”
RIP
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posted on
04/03/2016 7:44:00 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
To: Kaslin
Santa Fe please get back into the passenger service for many reasons Amtrak is a parasite.
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posted on
04/03/2016 7:47:16 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacted the most.)
To: Kaslin
That’s what signals are for. Dispatcher is supposed to keep these things straight.
To: palmer
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posted on
04/03/2016 7:55:03 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
04/03/2016 8:00:40 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
To: palmer
You’re right, nothing like a backhoe.
To: palmer
I had a project that required heavy cranes crossing Amtrak tracks.
To say they were incompetent, is to understate it.
After meetings at their control center on S. Canal, their communications guy was no show!They had three or four observers, but the one with a radio to talk to the trains;no.
After two hours and 35 workers waiting he shows.
Half way in a light is spotted coming at us!!!
The radio guy is able to contact them, a machine that cleans the ballast; huge and sounds like the horns of hell.
They didn’t see it on the schedule!!!!
That can ruin your day.
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posted on
04/03/2016 8:14:41 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
To: palmer
Well, I can’t help it. The point is why weren’t they warned, or why was the Amtrack conductor? not told to avoid the area?
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posted on
04/03/2016 8:16:31 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
To: Kaslin
They were using a digger where there ain’t no dirt and mowed over...
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posted on
04/03/2016 8:19:41 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: palmer
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posted on
04/03/2016 8:20:45 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I had to shut down the four (memory says four) tracks running east out of Kansas City north of the Missouri River. We were setting bridge beams for a moving walkway connector from a parking garage to a recreational facility.
It has been twenty-five years ago but as I remember it we had 28 Iron Workers, Eight operators, five cranes, all on Easter Sunday at triple-time. Plus about 25k in special bonds and insurance for the rail lines benefit.
This accident, from the track mounted equipment, appears to be Amtrak killing their own internal workers or internal contractors. An outside contractor would not be working on the tracks without them shut down with flagmen miles back in each direction (paid for by the outside contractor of course.)
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posted on
04/03/2016 8:29:28 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
To: Kaslin; palmer
I think this is the type of "backhoe" they're referring to:
![](http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/620*363/Amtrak+Backhoe+Crash.JPG)
Some additional info from that particular manufacturer:
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posted on
04/03/2016 8:29:58 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
To: COBOL2Java
Philadelphia,
So I thought Back-Ho.
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posted on
04/03/2016 8:34:19 AM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
04/03/2016 8:44:42 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
To: Kaslin
Ironic, another train-related incident happened in Philly.
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posted on
04/03/2016 9:25:49 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Biggirl
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posted on
04/03/2016 9:26:52 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
To: KC Burke
Not doing the proper communications.
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posted on
04/03/2016 9:28:13 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
04/03/2016 9:29:33 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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