AMTRAK train derailment

Gilligan

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stgislander

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Many lives lost apparently. New high-speed service ...maiden trip.

The location is a few minutes from where my mother-in-law lives and where my missus grew up. The railroad makes a significant turn along the gulf course there before crossing over I5. We travel that stretch often when visiting; that's where the Cabelas is.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/12/18/amtrak-train-derails-in-washington-state-rail-cars-fall-onto-interstate-5/?utm_term=.8f516f58b832

Is it a Trump golf course?
 

Starman

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Many lives lost apparently. New high-speed service ...maiden trip.

The location is a few minutes from where my mother-in-law lives and where my missus grew up. The railroad makes a significant turn along the gulf course there before crossing over I5. We travel that stretch often when visiting; that's where the Cabelas is.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/12/18/amtrak-train-derails-in-washington-state-rail-cars-fall-onto-interstate-5/?utm_term=.8f516f58b832

It’s not “high speed”. This is standard 79mph Class 4 track that most US trains use. This new section is a straight bypass which allows the full 79mph rather than slowing down considerably and meandering along the coast.

I would have thought they would have Automatic Speed Control here though.
 

Gilligan

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This new section is a straight bypass which allows the full 79mph rather than slowing down considerably and meandering along the coast.

Exactly what I said..the maiden trip on their newly upgraded high-speed service route..
Do try to keep up until at least your next mpd arrival, El Bee.
 

Starman

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Exactly what I said..the maiden trip on their newly upgraded high-speed service route..
Do try to keep up until at least your next mpd arrival, El Bee.

You’re still wrong, but we’re used to that. That’s not a high speed train. It’s a standard 79mph train.

Get someone to read this to you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail
 

PeoplesElbow

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You’re still wrong, but we’re used to that. That’s not a high speed train. It’s a standard 79mph train.

Get someone to read this to you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail

Amtrak is/was calling it a high speed service.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amtrak-acela-high-speed-trains-not-faster-2016-12

And from the press release
A high-speed Amtrak train on its maiden voyage derailed Monday morning about 50 miles south of Seattle, killing at least six people.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...in-derails-washington-state-article-1.3707034
 
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Starman

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Talk to Amtrak about that one. :shrug:

You ever dealt with people who write press releases? They’re even dumber than Gilligan.

I know what “high-speed” means as it relates to rail service. This doesn’t even come close to the narrowest definition of the term.
 

Gilligan

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You ever dealt with people who write press releases? They’re even dumber than Gilligan.

I know what “high-speed” means as it relates to rail service. This doesn’t even come close to the narrowest definition of the term.

ha ha ,...you lost that one, El Bee. Sucks to be you. Always has.

You got your next mpd registered yet?
 

Starman

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Like I said, Amtrak was calling it high speed.

Apparently the Obama administration was also calling this "high speed" https://cei.org/content/stop-pretending-its-high-speed-rail

That’s fine.

It’s not high speed.

Did you read the article you cited?

The Article said:
Almost none of the proposed so-called high-speed corridors will allow trains to travel at speeds exceeding 110 mph, which is the U.S. Department of Transportation's conveniently low minimum required maximum speed to grant a "high-speed rail" designation.

Not high speed.
 
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