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.
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I was watching BBQ Brawl on the Food Network.
I've long said they have too much of a "one size fits all" problem. You get the cafe car or a full three course meal, no in between level. If I were in charge I would have multiple food levels
1.Cafe Car - short distance trains like Boston to DC
2.Quick Service Dining - medium distance (say 10+ hours-1 night) like NY to FL, BOS/NY to Chicago, etc. with a dining car cooking food but lighter/quicker meals like sandwiches, salads, wraps, grinders, etc.
3. Full Service - all trains over 1 night with the full service dining car... 3 course dinner, etc.
Also, it's 2022. If I can get fast WiFi to stream video for free on JetBlue, no reason you can't provide similar satellite service on a train. The current "solution" of basically a couple cellular modems tied tougher in the cafe car providing enough bandwidth to a full train is a joke. It was fine years ago when it was geared to business types sending emails and spread sheets back and forth. And you only get WiFi on east coast and CA trains. The long distance 2-3 day trains, you are SOL except for your cell service.
Rant over.
The LaPlata BNSF railfan feed is here. You may see information in the stream of YouTube comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPTuEesIzWM
Only the Engineer is usually in the cab of the locomotive on Amtrak. The conductors, you have a lead and assistants are in the cars. Also you have attendant for each sleeper and a cafe car attendant and a chef for the diner plus probably 2 servers.
Locomotive cabs are well reinforced. If it took a indirect hit, i.e. not the dump bead full of gravel, dirt, etc., the engineer IMHO likely survived but probably has some serious injuries from the quick stop. I bet the fatalities are from the passenger cars, probably blunt force from hitting or being hit by something.
From video and pictures the people in the cars seem to be in OK shape and the cars intact. I wouldn’t want to have been in the vestibule passing between cars when it flopped over.
“Saw a video somebody shot, he mentioned the train had hit a dump truck.
This is one thing that really pisses me off about people who run railroad crossings and try to beat trains...”
They’re saying that this was at an “unguarded” crossing meaning no signals or gates.
I don't think Islamic terrorism is much of a concern these days. There's no need for Muslims to carry out terrorist attacks when the country is falling apart on its own. They can just sit back and eat halal popcorn.
Bad day to take a train.
If it the Engineer, I’d be sad. He loved the Virtual Railfan Camera in LaPlata. He toots his horn when he is there and usually give a wave to the camera.
Location of President Trump’s rally last Saturday.
That is a beautiful small town and one of the most popular VR camera. A few months ago, I saw an Amish person with a canoe tied to his buggy... Lots of golf carts in the town, too.
Truck axels are known Racist Homophobes’
There’s probably a joke in there somewhere about White Freightliner privilege.
sadly not a new problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5z3sRjYGlM
FRegards...
The site today is a trail in the woods..
True, but safer. I don’t think there’s been an airliner crash in this country since 2004.
thanks
I photographed most of the Amtrak heritage units (145, 184, 46, 108, 100, 156, 161, 406 and a 700 series P32-ACDM) when it ended up on the Lake Shore Boston section once. Most of the engineers were friendly and got a wave and/or horn toot. Luckily, I’ve been able to get all of these within maybe 10-15 miles of home. They either were on the Springfield-New Haven line which runs thru my town in central CT, or the Lake Shore which I can shoot in West Springfield if short on time.
Sadly, 140 and 160 the last P42 50th Anniversary unit never had some special cab signal equipment installed to run into Boston, so it is unlikely to come up this way.
The trains engineer got his toe caught in a toe clip and was unable to stop the train. Also known as old Amtrak Death Trap number 7.
Don’t believe that nonsense.
They go by mileage - which is absurd since airplanes cover thousands of miles in one trip.
What should count is how many trips. For RR that can be difficult if you need to include every stop (which airplanes can’t do).
Just how many RR incidents can you recall?
Watch Air Disasters sometime. You’ll realize something is wrong with those calculations.
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