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6 Dead, 146 Injured
From CNN:
FLASHBACK: FBI Warns of Train Derailment Threat
- 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...
- 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...
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4 Dead, 48 Injured After Train Derails In NYC A Metro North train derailed north of New York City early Sunday, transportation officials said. The train was en route to New York's Grand Central Station from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., when it derailed near...
- Another Train Derailment - This Time In Louisiana, Dangerous Chemicals Are Leaked, 100 Homes Evacuated
There sure are a lot of train accidents lately. Fox:Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said late Sunday that chemicals were leaking from a train carrying flammable and corrosive materials that derailed Sunday afternoon and forced the evacuation of around 100...
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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 York when it derailed in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The impact tore cars apart, sending seven of them flying from the tracks, and left the engine a mangled mess.
"We have confirmed an engine and all seven cars derailed," a U.S. Department of Transportation representative told CNN on Wednesday, adding that the engine and two cars were left standing upright, three cars were tipped on their sides, and one was nearly flipped over on its roof.
The seventh one is "leaning hard," they said. The northeast corridor, which reaches from Washington to Boston, is the busiest passenger line in the country, and the train was carrying 238 passengers and five crew members. The cause wasn't immediately known.
"We do not know what happened here. We do not know why it happened," Nutter said. There was no indication the derailment was a result of an impact with another train, he said.
So far, there's nothing to indicate the incident was an act of terrorism.This reporter spontaneously referred to the derailment as a "Massive Crime Scene".
FLASHBACK: FBI Warns of Train Derailment Threat
- 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...
- 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...
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4 Dead, 48 Injured After Train Derails In NYC A Metro North train derailed north of New York City early Sunday, transportation officials said. The train was en route to New York's Grand Central Station from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., when it derailed near...
- Another Train Derailment - This Time In Louisiana, Dangerous Chemicals Are Leaked, 100 Homes Evacuated
There sure are a lot of train accidents lately. Fox:Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said late Sunday that chemicals were leaking from a train carrying flammable and corrosive materials that derailed Sunday afternoon and forced the evacuation of around 100...