It's a GM Truck & Bus train...
Posted on 12/18/2017 12:35:57 PM PST by servo1969
Monday’s deadly Amtrak train derailment appears to have been caused by an object on the railway, according to a government official briefed on the crash.
A preliminary investigation suggests maintenance problems are unlikely to blame because the incident took place on brand-new tracks, the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
At least six people were killed and the death toll is expected to rise, the official said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Looks like sabotage more and more.
Certainly raises the probability.
Darn...like the Number 4 Turn at Talladega...
That’s a long shot.
I much rather blame Antifa or muslims or even aliens than some poor homeless veteran sleeping out in the cold. Anyway, the homeless should relocate to southern California where it’s warm.
It's a GM Truck & Bus train...
In those pictures, you can see that the “high-speed tracks” are not enclosed - anybody could walk up onto those from the road ...
Go to Europe or Japan, look at their high-speed lines, they’re all tightly fenced with tall barb-wire-topped systems, nobody can get in.
“just sayin”
You can see the straight line path plowed by the lead engine down to the freeway (dirt, damaged tree bark etc). it is clear that the actual derailment occurred well before the bridge - prior to the curve over the bridge.
I wonder if the orange A’s spraypainted on the locomotive are from investigators? It looks like there’s a cleaned or faded one on the bridge too...
“Based on what, exactly?”
Skimming reports on other sites, could be Antifa did this to protest fracking supplies/equipment being transported in this neck of the woods. But we won’t know for a long time, if ever.
Probably a cover story for an incompetent operator, too much speed for the curve.
No sabotage was necessary. This was more likely another case of extreme stupidity by government and government employees.
In the end this will most likely be found to have been caused by a train traveling 81 mph on a CURVED section of track that had a maximum speed of 79 mph on the STRAIGHT sections of track. The state of Washington spent nearly a billion dollars that was suppose to save a handful of mostly recreational passengers 4 minutes on the run to Seattle to Portland.
It was noted both on the practice run with dignitaries on Friday and today before the crash that the new route was actually slower than the mainline route. The train was behind schedule again this morning. My guess is that the government employee engineer was pressured to demonstrate that the Billion dollars had not been spent in vain and to pick up the pace.
I squashed penny’s back in 1962 on a RR track. I never found most of them for some reason? Could it be?
So not “clearly” ... got it.
The curve is right before the bridge. Looks to me like it went straight off the curve and onto the highway.
The engine plunged down the embankment all the way to the roadway below, and the cars wadded up against the bridge railing.
The last two cars and the trailing engine (blue) remain on the track, blocking it.
Nothing else is apparent as to cause of the derailment. Could be human error, sabotage, failure in the track, failure in the lead engine, any number of reasons.
Need some close inspection of the track where the lead engine initially left the tracks. And find any loose pieces, where they belong, and where they went. A train wheel off in the woods half a mile away? A piece of rail missing/misaligned?
Also there should be a record of what speed the train was running when it wrecked.
Looks like the locomotive on the highway. It would seem pulled
LABRAT KNATS
Is that the rail liine?
In the US, 80 mph is pretty much an Amtrak minimum, and with all the miles of the lines, open access.
According to the pix on 24, It appears the Lab Rat Knats are taking credit.
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