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SEPTA Engineer Saw ‘Trespasser’ On Tracks Moments Before Train Was Hit By Object
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/ ^ | May 19, 2015

Posted on 05/19/2015 9:05:06 AM PDT by Abby4116

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A transit train driver says he saw a “trespasser” on the tracks moments before an unknown object struck a window on the train.

The SEPTA train was struck on the same night and in close proximity to the Amtrak train that derailed on May 12th in Philadelphia.

According to SEPTA officials, the engineer saw a trespasser on the track moments before an unidentified object smashed a window.

(Excerpt) Read more at philadelphia.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amtrak; train; trainwreck
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1 posted on 05/19/2015 9:05:06 AM PDT by Abby4116
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I thought he didn't remember anything...my girlfriend's Morgan Fairchild, yeah...that's the ticket.
2 posted on 05/19/2015 9:06:50 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Abby4116

So? Why does this matter? The train was still going twice the posted speed on a corner.


3 posted on 05/19/2015 9:07:04 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Abby4116

Social Justice at work.


4 posted on 05/19/2015 9:07:09 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: fungoking

SEPTA is not Amtrak. This is a different engineer.


5 posted on 05/19/2015 9:09:06 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Abby4116

Soon they will be reports of space aliens and flying saucers on the track. They are desperately trying to keep their protected and privileged one out of trouble. Don’t be surprised at what you hear next.


6 posted on 05/19/2015 9:09:23 AM PDT by sport
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To: fungoking

The crashed train, with the amnesiac homosexual engineer was AMTRAK.

This train is SEPTA ... local Philly commuter rail. They use some of the same tracks.


7 posted on 05/19/2015 9:09:47 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: fungoking
A transit train driver says he saw a “trespasser” on the tracks

I thought he didn't remember anything...

Different driver, different train nearby.

8 posted on 05/19/2015 9:10:07 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: fungoking

This is a SEPTA engineer, not the Amtrack guy. But a rock/foreign object thrower on the tracks isn’t going to have the movement range someone on an overpass or pedestrian bridge will have. So that would limit the ability of the guy to roam around the area. Either the trains were all attacked within a few 100 feet along the tracks, or this is irrelevant.


9 posted on 05/19/2015 9:10:29 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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So. A trespasser is the reason to speed up to 100 MPH. This is diversionist BS.


10 posted on 05/19/2015 9:11:00 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Yet, stupid and as inapplicable as it is, it has diverted someone from the central them of the derailment. ONE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR>


11 posted on 05/19/2015 9:12:45 AM PDT by Gaffer
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It’s North Philadelphia! There’s all kinds of bums walking around by the tracks. Kids too. It’s not unusual to see someone.


12 posted on 05/19/2015 9:12:52 AM PDT by old and tired
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And just to add to my previous post, I’ve been on this route frequently enough. It’s not unusual for trains to craaaaaaaaaaaaaaawl through North PHiladelphia. I always assumed they did that because there might be a bum sleeping on the tracks.


13 posted on 05/19/2015 9:14:50 AM PDT by old and tired
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To: Gaffer

Wrong train.


14 posted on 05/19/2015 9:16:23 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: fungoking

This report is from a different engineer and not the one you’re referring to. Two different trains, two different engineers.


15 posted on 05/19/2015 9:16:24 AM PDT by mupcat
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Smoke and mirrors. Anything to draw the attention away from why the gay engineer was going more than twice the speed limit.


16 posted on 05/19/2015 9:16:44 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
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To: SoConPubbie

True. We have a long way to go to connect any object throwing to the excessive speed of the Amtrak train. So far, there’s no connection.


17 posted on 05/19/2015 9:17:21 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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...was wearing a Tea Party t-shirt, in black-face and spit at the engineer...next?


18 posted on 05/19/2015 9:18:09 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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Even if someone threw a brick, the train should have been travelling at 60 mph and the engineer would have been well out of range quickly, so what was the reason to accelerate to 100+mph?
19 posted on 05/19/2015 9:18:11 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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I think this whole object striking the windshield is just a red herring. The most obvious cause, given the facts of excessive speed we do know, it that the engineer was either hung over or texting and not paying attention. By the time he looked up it was too late.


20 posted on 05/19/2015 9:20:46 AM PDT by circlecity
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