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AmTrak derailment
AmTrak without a derailment is like a Western Movie without a Hangin'.
It should be renamed AmTRASH. I would not get on one of those death-traps even if I was at the controls.
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It will be interesting to see what else comes out. ... Condolences to the injured and the families of those hurt or killed. Doug .
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Engineer isn't talking—not a good sign. Nobody has mentioned the Conductor yet. It's his train.
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The conductor has skull fractures and last I heard, was in critical condition.
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Government drones are in use everywhere...
They come in all shapes and sizes... Some walk on two legs... Some fly... |
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106 mph really is not much for a train unless on the junk tracks here in the USA.
Our passenger AmSlak trains not only share the freight tracks (unlike ALL other modern nations), they are secondary to them. It makes ZERO sense to have a passenger train traveling over DOUBLE the track-rated speed unless their was either an uncorrectable mechanical failure or a severe human failure (asleep, stroke, seizure, anaphalaxis, etc). Something is severely fishy here; quite frankly I'm hoping the 'orange box' reveals something OTHER than the usual 'human negligence'. I have ridden the Shinkansens (Bullet Trains) in Japan several times and the "slow" ones exceed that speed by a LOT. The "Duck Billed" fast ones are WAY faster than that.
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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!! Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't ! Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY. ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC ! |
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