And monkeys may have flown out of my butt.
I am no physicist, but getting hit by a projectile would tend to slow an abject down, no? Not speed it up by 100%+.
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the Amish were upset and starting throwing shoofly pies at the train, because it missed their stop where they wanted to board the train. gotta be careful of those irate Amish and shoofly pies they can really do a number on train windshields./s
Look at that diagram of the route with speed limits. Notice that just beyond the curve is an area where trains accelerate to 100 MPH. Could the engineer have become distracted (maybe from whatever struck the train) and mistakenly thought he was beyond the curve? He started to accelerate, then realizing his mistake, panicked and pulled on the brake?
Does Amtrak record train to dispatch radio audio at their dispatch office?
Dude is responsible for mass mayhem and death, of course he remembers nothing. How does a guy deal with this without blowing his brains out?
I think they should go with the climate change angle. Warming temps might have warped the rails in such a way as to have caused speed anomalies with the train.
“believes she heard the engineer tell another regional train operator in a radio transmission that the train had been struck by something just before the accident,...”
This is ambiguously written. Did she hear him say this after the derailment (before he lost his memory and all...)?
Or did he say it just before the derailment. Next, the use of “accident” seems like premature spin, when the story implies it wasn’t an accident at all.
Did the engineer broadcast an “excuse narrative” knowing the train was likely to derail due to excess speed due to his act or omission?
Did he have a special interest in historic train wrecks by chance? Somebody better check his media visits.
BS !
Those windshields have to withstand impacts daily from bird strikes, rocks, even bullets.
Show us the actual windshields and damage.
I have been on those engines and saw for my self bird strikes.
Show us the actual injury on the engineer’s head and face.
There appears to be a whole lot of investigators, AMTRAC officials, media types yelling SQUIRREL, SQUIRREL, SQUIRREL, SQUIRREL and pointing away from the responsible engineer.
WTF?
It looks to me like the center fuel tank exploded in the first passenger car.
There was a report from another train that something had hit them a short while before this train’s accident.
Suuuure.....
During a traffic safety class that the military required the younger troops to attend when coming into a new area, they had some about not competing with the trains for a spot on the tracks. I can still hear an engineer telling us how he had encountered several vehicles and that what stuck with him most is how he never felt the impacts. The train engine is so massive that a car is nothing to it - a fist-sized dent did not hamper the train's stability on the tracks - unless the engineer sharply tugged the steering wheel due to surprise..........(take tongue out of cheek now).
So the broken glass obscured the engineer's field of vision, which prevented him from swerving to avoid something on the tracks? /s
We were struck by a rock that went through our windshield while driving on the highway going 50 mph. It didn’t cause us to speed up to twice our speed. Wonder why that happened to the train? S/s
This certainly explains why the queer engineer can’t remember anything. Problem solved. Haha
Also, the morning following the derailment, Fox and Friends interviewed a surviving passenger on the Amtrak derailment, NJ Police Officer identified as Michael Keene. Keene was lauded by other survivors as a passenger turned heroic rescuer on that derailed Amtrak train.
Not discussed further but worthy of mentioning again, this officer specifically stated he was returning home from DC having attended certain events related to honoring our nation's law enforcement officers as described online:
National Officer Safety And Wellness Awards To Be Presented At Chairman's Dinner Event During National Police Week Washington, May 12, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Late last year, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and BJA's VALOR officer safety initiative, launched the Destination Zero Project to highlight agency-level achievements in the area of officer safety and wellness. The primary objective of the program is to drive down causal factors that kill and injure law enforcement officers, and to help officers live safer, happier, healthier lives. The result of this project will culminate with presentation of the inaugural National Officer Safety and Wellness Awards at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund's annual Chairman's Dinner on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.
Begs the question...given the current politically charged 'anti-police' climate...were these 'police related' events and the timing of attending officers departure via Amtrak, merely coincidence - given multiple reports of 'projectiles' reaching trains travelling in that same location ?
Partial transcript from Fox & Friends video clip mentioned above:
Fox&Friends: 'It's My Job' Heroic Police Officer Reacts After Helping Train Crash Victims
- 2:57 Steve Ducie:
I understand you had just gotten on the train at Philadelphia's 30th street station. Why were you in Wa....why were you down there?- 3:05 Michael Keane:
I was actually ..I was coming home, I got on the train at Washington DC. I was in Washington over the weekend. I took part in the Police Unity Tour [link].We arrived at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial[link] yesterday morning and I was on my way home from there.
seems like a derailed train is going to be pretty dented up in general. I wonder why one dent seems so unlike all of the others.