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To: BraveMan

Great photo! It’s a 30mph curve and the engineer tried to take it at 80mph. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why the train continued on a straight ahead trajectory and came off the tracks.


160 posted on 12/18/2017 5:28:42 PM PST by fireman15
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I have no way of knowing for certain, but would guess that the speed was a lot lower than 80 mph, otherwise the front engine and cars would have flown a lot further down the bank and interstate. What is more likely is that the train was slowing from that earlier speed to around 40-50 mph but it was still going too fast to take the turn. Apparently a passive computerized system that is designed to be a fail-safe against human error was not yet operational (local news report said scheduled for next year). The curve is preceded by a long (if slight) downgrade and so possibly the engineers misjudged the rate at which they could slow down. Time will tell, but I don’t think there’s any chance that rear engine would have stopped where it did going more than 40 mph.


161 posted on 12/18/2017 6:48:01 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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