I watched the news from the start for about two hours and picked up some tidbits.
That 81 mph was taken off an online service that monitors the train in real time. It was for a straight stretch just prior to the curve but showed no speeds after.
There was talk of an object on the track that may have been the culprit. There were 12-15 men in yellow coats gathered around a spot on the track looking down when they mentioned this.
The real fun one when I watched Portland FOX affiliate CH 12. They showed the semi truck under the crossover that had been hit by the falling train. The moronic news readers were debating whether it was the truck that may have caused the accident.
Ch 12 by the way gave out some fake Trump political election news and shortly after had a self ad saying they never gave out fake news.
I see the info now about the 30 mph limit but I didn’t find that earlier, only the 79 mph that is typical of Amtrak other locations not on the NorthEast Corridor.
If limit is actually 30 - 35 them 80 give or take 1 mph is too fast.
Also saw somewhere today in reading on this that the curve was elevated meaning banked to allow higher speeds. Also haven’t run across that info again.
So much misinformation and false information floating around now; how much of what I found earlier is still out there I don’t know but it’s now hard to find, buried, or wiped.
It’s just strange that the rail didn’t roll over from flange forces at a speed over twice what it should have experienced. Until more information is revealed anything I add beyond this is pure speculation.
Haha. Thanks for reminding me of how glad I am to have left. Ick
Journalists are apparently not required to take physics and logic classes. It would explain why they tell stories rather than give reports and are full of Fake News.