[oh8eleven]

Two engineers and they still couldn't get it safely around the curve. FAIL.
Amtrak, like NASA and so many other gubmint boondoggles, should be abolished.

[proust]

Speed kills. How is this strange?

[ClearCase_guy]

an instructor engineer, and another engineer who was learning the territory and qualifying to operate the train along the route.

Trainee: "So, this is a 30 mph zone?"
Instructor: "That's right."
Trainee: "Would it be alright if I opened up to, like, 80 mph?"
Instructor: "I don't see why not. Go for it, dude!"

[Jonty30]

Check their cell phones.

[Brilliant]

They don’t even use GPS? They are insane.

[headstamp 2]

We’ll know as much about this as the Las Vegas shooting.

[ThunderSleeps]

The fact that they were conducting training on the inaugural run is suspect. Maybe you want to do the first run with the A team at the controls?

Also, previous training runs had been conducted at night - first run in the daytime is with passengers?

Finally, previous training had been done with 6 or more trainees in the cab. You know they weren't all paying attention to the job at hand so they probably got limited value from those training runs.

Cut corners and people die.

[Vinnie]

Brand new route. First run on the route.
They didn’t know the speed zone there.
Betcha

[UCANSEE2]

“It appears that there were two people in the lead locomotive control cab of the train who were both injured and hospitalized”

So... that means they are still alive and have been interviewed. The only reason that the info has not gone public is that it is BAD for Amtrak.

[bk1000]

Perhaps the two engineers were, um,...distracted.

[KC_Conspirator]

Right after this happened, hate filled leftists took to social media blaming President Trump. Sickening.

[Fightin Whitey]

Somebody is due a manslaughter charge.

But the government doesn’t prosecute government people, does it? Especially the unskin privileged?

[60Gunner]

I wonder if the junior engineer was doing more than just learning how to “operate the engine.”

[glorgau]

... and another engineer who was learning the territory and qualifying to operate the train along the route.

I'd be willing to bet that he didn't pass his qualification.

[RegulatorCountry]

It appears that there were two people in the lead locomotive control cab of the train who were both injured and hospitalized: an instructor engineer, and another engineer who was learning the territory and qualifying to operate the train along the route.

It was a homosexual version of The World According To Garp.

[jmacusa]

Not to make light of a tragedy but there's an old Jesse Fuller tune about a train engineer and his pet monkey who one day takes the train for a joy ride when the engineer wasn't around and did a better job then he did driving it. Maybe Amtrak might look into something like that given it's disastrous record over the years.

[mylife]

Oh for petes sake! The line is mapped, you know your speed.
How hard is it to figure out your position on the line?

[indthkr]

From the article, "places the onus on those managing this operation and their judgment and experience, or lack thereof. The lack of competent oversight by management and/or policy may lie at the root cause of this accident."

Amtrak Sounder Service Fail - brought to you by the same "policy" and urban planning morons that want to install self-driving cars everywhere.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Cover-up is in play.....

[faucetman]

It’s a cover up.

When things are “hard to believe”, WHY do you so easily believe them?

Someone famous must have already said this, but if not, I’ll take credit.

[Vermont Lt]

Having a gps governor attached to the system could probably be done by most any CS sophomore. But then again, safety is really the drivers job.