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Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Sat Sep 13 07:11:32 2008, in response to Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sat Sep 13 06:54:32 2008. The telescoping occurred because the Metrolink train struck a much heavier freight train, essentially pushing the loco straight back into the car behind it. I am surprised to see, as Port Authority has posted, that the Metrolink cars do not appear to be equpiied with anticlimbers, which I imagined to be de rigeur for passenger cars.I am wondering how the Metrolink train could have entered this block, because (as others have posted) it would have trailed a switch set against it to do so. I think the investigation will focus on these points: Which train had authority to occupy the block where the accident occurred? How were the signals and switches set? Did either engineer disregard the signals and/or authority given him? Did either engineer suffer illness or injury immediately prior to impact? Is the data from the event recorders readable, and what will it reveal? |
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