NTSB: Amtrak assistant conductor heard engineer say train struck by “something”
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NTSB: Amtrak assistant conductor heard engineer say train struck by “something”




AND THERE'S ALSO THIS:

NBCNews video: Passenger on Amtrak Locomotive Says His Train Was Also Struck by Object
A passenger traveling along the same route the night that Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia told NBC News that an object hit his train, shattering the window. 
The account from Johns Hopkins student Justin Landis makes him the third person to report a projectile hitting a train Tuesday night in that area, and comes a day after the National Transportation Safety Board said investigators were working to determine whether something struck the doomed Amtrak train before it derailed. Eight people were killed and about 200 others were injured in the accident.




- Bloggers Aren't The Only Ones Asking...
NY Times: Amtrak Train Possibly Hit Before Wreck PHILADELPHIA — The Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring more than 200, may have been struck by an object before it careened off the tracks, an assistant conductor on the...

- Engineer Of Derailed Train Identified - Brandon Bostian
This is the guy that apparently took the curve at 35+ MPH over the speed limit: The engineer driving the Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday night has been identified as 32-year-old Brandon Bostian. The attorney for Bostian, a Queens, New York, resident,...

- Train Travelling At Least 30 Miles Above The Speed Limit At Time It Derailed - Engineer Has Lawyer Present, Refuses To Talk To Police
From Yahoo: PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The engineer at the controls of an Amtrak train that hurtled off the tracks while rounding a sharp curve refused to talk to police Wednesday as the death toll climbed to seven with the discovery of another body in the...

- Philadelphia: Amtrak Train Entirely Derails, All Seven Cars, "twisted And Torn Like Tinfoil", One Reporter Declares It A "massive Crime Scene"
6 Dead, 146 Injured From CNN: "It is an absolute, disastrous mess," Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said of the crash site. "I've never seen anything like this in my life." Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 was traveling from Washington to New...

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Ex-Black Liberation Anarchist Is Arrested On Amtrak After Passengers Report Him Talking About Al Qaeda and Terrorism... From Weasel Zippers: A recently released New Jersey prisoner was yanked off an Amtrak train in Colorado after fellow passengers...



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