Send all those folks an email. Shirley your credibility alone will cause many retractions and corrections.
PS: I can see the spittle flecking on to your keyboard and screen from here. Come on..what's your next screen name? Don't make us guess.
AMTRAK train derailment
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PS: I can see the spittle flecking on to your keyboard and screen from here. Come on..what's your next screen name? Don't make us guess.
Send all those folks an email. Shirley your credibility alone will cause many retractions and corrections.
Still haven’t found someone to read to you? Pity.
PeoplesElbow
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I think we can agree it was called high speed for marketing purposes, who would bother riding a low speed train for commuting?
Compared to the freight rail that owns the tracks it is high speed, this is the problem with using adjectives to describe things. If it was simply described as Class A etc... it would be more straight forward.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
So you understand it cannot properly be called “high speed”. We’re making progress here.
I think you mean Class 4, which I already mentioned and is definitely not “high speed”
PeoplesElbow
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But it has been called high speed ...
And I’m sure you understand that just because some marketing glossies call it as such doesn’t make it so.
PeoplesElbow
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You're a big train geek aren't you?
And why can't it be called high speed rail? It apparently already has been by just about everyone, including the last presidential administration.
Railfan and trainspotter for 30+ years, yes.
Bruce Jenner now calls himself a woman. Does that make him a woman?
Ooh. We have a genuine railfan among us. Everyone be quiet when he dispenses his wisdom.
Anyway, this was funded by the big O as part of the PNW high speed rail corridor. While the project was certified to a 79mph standard, the S-curve across I5 and the Nisqually junction probably have a lower speed limit. We'll see whether the excessive speed was human failure by the engineer or a training failure by the railroad.
PeoplesElbow
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FWIW I texted a friend of mine who is an engineer for a freight service and asked him if that was considered high speed, he told me everything above 35 is high speed.
Right. So not high speed.
For freight rail in the U.S. that's probably not far off the mark. Freight is a completely different beast from passenger.
Knew you were following his lead. But of course....
Found someone nice enough to read to you yet?
Getting desperate yet, sport? Got that new mpd cued up?
:cheekpinch:
He is just an engineer, our starman here is a certified railfan. --> your friend loses.
