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Multiple people are feared dead after Amtrak train derails near Kansas City
UK Daily Mail ^ | 6/27/2022 | Andrea Cavallier

Posted on 06/27/2022 12:32:02 PM PDT by fruser1

Multiple people are feared to have been killed after an Amtrak train carrying 243 people derailed close to Kansas City in Missouri.

It's still unclear what caused the smash - but one imaged shared by a survivor showed what appeared to be a broken truck axle lying to one side of the tracks.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amtrak; axle; derail; derailment; dumptruck; missouri; prayersup; railroad; rr; slamtrack; slamtrak; tragedy; train; traindisaster; traintracks
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To: The_Media_never_lie

You won’t want to do that on a cross-country trip. 8 hours from New England I could handle. Overnight, to Wisconsin, no thanks.


101 posted on 06/27/2022 7:39:32 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVds)
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To: matt04

Superliner is not just west of Chicago. We’ve been on them and see plenty of them here in the East.

Unless they scaled that back, too. I admit my last was 19 years ago.


102 posted on 06/27/2022 7:45:20 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVds)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

They aren’t found on any trains in the NEC between Boston and DC due to low clearances. The Capitol Limited from DC to Chicago via Pittsburgh and Cleveland runs them but nothing north of that. The Auto Train uses them and the City of NOLA between Chigago and, well, NOLA as well.


103 posted on 06/27/2022 7:57:53 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: BfloGuy

“...I don’t think there’s been an airliner crash in this country since 2004.” [BfloGuy, post 96]

Last Monday (21 June), a Red Air MD-80 wrecked on landing at Miami International. Technically, not a US airliner incident; Red Air is flagged in the Dominican Republic.

Initial indications: landing gear collapsed and the aircraft left the runway. Three hospitalized. Aircraft a total loss.


104 posted on 06/27/2022 8:00:05 PM PDT by schurmann
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To: matt04

Been on the Capitol Ltd many times including that last.

Since we’re in the area that could be why we see them enough.


105 posted on 06/27/2022 8:00:45 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVds)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

A fried has done the Lake Shore from Springfield to Chicago in both Coach and Sleeper. They said coach is doable, but wouldn’t want to go much farther. They were on the first coach car in the consist so not many people passing thru, which helped.


106 posted on 06/27/2022 8:01:10 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: piasa

Summer and high gas prices.


107 posted on 06/27/2022 8:01:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: fruser1

Amtrak vs. dump truck...remember central VA carrying GOP House members to a strategy retreat?

“It’s deja vu all over again”!

Minus the House GOP.


108 posted on 06/27/2022 9:39:00 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Wonder what punishment the dispatcher received.


109 posted on 06/28/2022 6:41:16 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: matt04

I grew up in Central CT. My school was next to the Hartford - Willimantic Highland route. The line was NHs autoroute and used to see Fords going past. Around 68 I took a picture of the freight leaving Pratt-Whitney for the last time.


110 posted on 06/28/2022 10:01:54 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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To: Churchillspirit

Not sure, but one of the trains was running late due to a Steamboat being late.


111 posted on 06/28/2022 10:05:52 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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