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Re: Major Amtrak derailment in Philly |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed May 13 01:39:04 2015, in response to Re: Major Amtrak derailment in Philly, posted by Jersey Mike on Wed May 13 01:28:06 2015. If you check out the way the cars landed, as well as the distance the locomotive travelled before the nose was snagged by the rails on the other side there, it pretty much matches the layout of the wreck at Spuyten Duyvil. I have no way of knowing what track it was on, but assuming that it was the outside track, even there, the roadbed would have had to collapse for a good distance for it all to land the way it did.In most normal derailments, one would have expected the tightlocks to have held and stayed largely in a straight line following the curve. Most of the cars went over in the same direction and rolled, that would definitely appear to be well past "tipping speed." But AGAIN, we need to wait until the facts are in, all I'm offering is that this is what it looks like to me right now. |
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