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Posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Tue May 20 15:45:03 2008, in response to Re: NJ Transit Comet I cars still in service and question on the Comet Ib cars?, posted by Dutchrailnut on Tue May 20 15:21:30 2008. I read that both engineers died, and one passenger. Is it this wreck:http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/1997/RAR9701.pdf ? The thing is, the engineer in a cab car can go to the other side, where there is practically no damage. Shame the engineer of the loco died to, that usually only happens in a loco-loco collision, but this was a strange accident, and parts of the steel of the cab car were logged into the cab of the loco, particularly a beam at the cieleing level. There wasn't much intrusion into the loco cab either, just one big rod from the cab car, which really messed up the inside of the cab, and that is probably what killed the engineer. Kind of a freak accident, and no safety regulation probably would have made it better. *MAYBE* the passenger wouldn't die if the side had better reenforcement, but the front is the front, and all that force was concentrated directly on the engineer positions. |
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