[jonatron]

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[2ndDivisionVet]

[ConorMacNessa]

Ping, Army Bro!

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

[House Atreides]

“LOOK! SQUIRREL, SQUIRREL, SQUIRREL” they say as they point in every direction except for the one that leads to the Amtrak engineer.

[Darksheare]

Speed not an issue?
I mean, come on.
100+ and accel for one minute?
What was he doing, trying to outrun a Hetzer?

[Bryan24]

Now how is it that an projectile caused the engineer to speed up to over 100mph?

[Cementjungle]

I think there were anti-tank missiles being fired at the trains too. Then there were the IED's all over the place.

Kids these days...

[Nifster]

Be that as it may the real question is why in the heck was this train going 106 mph when the curve speed is half that????

[ctdonath2]

Sometimes it’s a confluence of events.

Like the single viable alternate JFK theory that while Oswald was trying - and failing - to shoot Kennedy, one of the Secret Service agents trying to protect & evacuate him accidentally shot him in the head.

Maybe while the train driver was...otherwise preoccupied, somebody coincidentally was shooting at the train at a low-speed turn area. If you’re going to attempt such a terroristic attack on a train, that’s probably an effective location to do so. If so, surprised the he11 out of the shooter...

Just a thought.

[dragnet2]

Gee, I wonder how did that windshield get cracked? The train was only doing about 105mph..

This thing even has tree branches embedded in the wipers among all kinds of other damage.

[umgud]

The damaged window clearly shows the impact, but it appears it didn’t go thru the glass.

[babygene]

We know the speed limit on the curve was 50MPH. Do we know what it was just before the curve? I haven’t seen it anywhere...

[erlayman]

I think this should be THREAD trains as the headline at Daily Mail was apparently changed to reflect. Investigators revealed that two other trains had suffered cracked windows after being hit by unknown objects just minutes before the deadly crash and only a few miles apart but so far no definitive word on Amtrak 188.

[samtheman]

Mass murder is ok if you’re in a protected group.

[Myrddin]

I've worked around the train industry for well over 10 years. The research caboose used on my project was shot fairly often. Lots of jackasses take shots are railcars. It usually happens out in wide open country. The root issue here is whether the "shots" have anything to do with the excessive speed that was the cause of the derailment. If not, it's just a shiny object distraction. Let's get back to examining the engineer controlling the throttle. That is the likely origin of the problem.

[wintertime]

A rock crushed my windshield, directly in front of my face, while I was driving on a major freeway. It was a terrifying experience and I am grateful that I did not lose control of the car. There was glass everywhere and I was covered in shards. I could not see out of driver's side of the window but did manage to see well enough on the passenger's side to pull the car to a safe area.

If an object shattered the window of the train, it could have easily seriously distracted the engineer.

I will be curious to see what comes out in the investigation.

[trebb]

Once again - a potential issue but irrelevant to the crash.

[Neoliberalnot]

The continuing cover for the mental disease called Queer Derangement Syndrome (QDS).

[McGruff]

And maybe the train had underinflated tires. Geez.

[hondact200]

a bullet as big as a grapefruit!. The train is going at 106 mph goes off the tracks and there are trees, rocks and whatever other objects going flying. here is the scenario - as the train goes off the track, the train also strikes a small brick embankment, there are trees and rocks alongside the trackside. there is so much debris flying that window is struck by a grapefruit size rock as it continues on down the trackside till it stops. Because another track stated there was a projectile that hit another commuter train in the area. It is now the MO the train was struck by a projectile. BS!

[Usagi_yo]

If it was an act of terrorism would our government try and cover that up if it could?