Yeah, but it still looks more like damage from maybe 50mph or less. There's no way they took that bend at 80.
Then again, maybe they did ...
Posted on 12/18/2017 9:12:29 AM PST by JME_FAN
A high-speed Amtrak train derailed onto Interstate 5 between Tacoma and Olympia Monday. Casualties and injuries are reported. Drivers are being told to avoid the area and expect alternate routes to be backed up.
(Excerpt) Read more at king5.com ...
They’re saying it was only going 18MPH. First reported at 80. Never know what to believe.
I watched an eyewitness say he had never seen a train go that fast through that section of track before. Sounds like it was going too fast for those curves for whatever reason.
CGato
“December 18 is the first day of five trains running ... off the rails”
Highway patrol said no fatalities on the highway.
Ran over or fell on? How could the semi be on the tracks?
Illegal alien - wanna wager?
Jack Posobiec’s Twitter page will not load at all on my computer. I wonder if Twitter is blocking it.
He was one of the first this morning to suggest sabotage by Antifa and post links.
Fell on. The semi is under the bridge along with an upside down train car.
Okay. That I understand. What I don’t understand is a report the train may have struck a truck on the track.
Yes it was going 81mph which is 2mph over the allowed speed of 79mph on the STRAIGHT sections of track. By “high speed” rail standards this is a relatively sharp corner and the pictures show that the lead locomotive kept going in almost a straight line went down a hill, stopped and the rest of the cars accordioned behind it going in all directions. This was a government run train with government employees running on government owned tracks.
On the train run that goes from Seattle to Eugene the state of Washington and the State of Oregon contract with Amtrak. The two states each subsidize 1 dollar for every dollar that Amtrak collects in fares. Even with this 2 to 1 subsidy this run still loses over $250 million dollars every year not even including capital expenditures.
Sound Transit, the government agency that owns these tracks has spent over $800 million dollars on them in the last 10 years with absolutely nothing at all to show for it... there has been no benefit to anyone other than the paychecks collected by government employees and government contractors.
This train was less than half full even on the “inaugural” run on this new route. Sound Transit has spent already spent many, many billions of dollars on local rail projects with no end in sight. This is just one more glaring example of extreme government waste.
It's Amtrak...
I think that was probably a mix up in the info that was released. Pretty sure they meant that this was the truck that was struck. Check on the pics over here ... they give a clearer picture of the mayhem.
To save a handful of people four minutes on a mostly recreational train ride from Seattle to Portland... the State of Washington has spent nearly a billion dollars on track improvements so that they could use this “bypass” through a heavily populated area. They have also killed probably close to a dozen people because on the “inaugural” run the engineer ran the train off the tracks and has paralyzed transportation in and out of the state on the I-5, by far the most used route.
The engineer was probably under pressure to demonstrate that the billion dollars just spent would actually save the 4 minutes. People were noting that the run was not reaching its destination as quickly as was originally expected. It is just a billion dollars completely and totally wasted.
I have never heard of Amtrak owning any lines except some of the Northeast Corridor. I thought these were freight lines.
Yeah, but it still looks more like damage from maybe 50mph or less. There's no way they took that bend at 80.
Then again, maybe they did ...
“...totally wasted”? No. There are LIB idiots who feel better now because this train line was completed using OPM (Other Peoples’ Money). They have a great warm feeling.
*sigh* it’s NOT “high-speed”. It is standard 80mph possible. It is not an Acela or anything like that, just faster than FREIGHT.
This is COMMON scenario all over the country. Except for their NE Corridor, Amtrak does not own tracks but contracts with private freight lines. They do fine with that.
Ok, sorry, I know NOTHING about railroads. Except for that old song. I thought maybe a corner was cut.
I had no idea that Amtrak owned any tracks anywhere. The bypass track this train ran off of are owned by Sound Transit a government agency. The mainline is owned by BNSF.
It is not “high speed”. It is standard highway speed and therearound. Not even Acela. It is just faster than freight.
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