05-12-2015, 09:29 PM
My contacts on Amtrak tell me it was train 188, with the first ACS-64, #601. I'm watching it on the news right now, and it looks pretty bad.
I worry that one of those cars slid broadside into a catenary pole, which would explain how it became so obliterated. I read about a similar derailment in which the same thing happened (a coach was ripped in half by a catenary pole).
For now, just need to keep these people in our thoughts.
***edit***
I changed the channel to 10, that is a real nightmare derailment. the locomotive traveled quite a distance away from the NEC.
I worry that one of those cars slid broadside into a catenary pole, which would explain how it became so obliterated. I read about a similar derailment in which the same thing happened (a coach was ripped in half by a catenary pole).
For now, just need to keep these people in our thoughts.
***edit***
I changed the channel to 10, that is a real nightmare derailment. the locomotive traveled quite a distance away from the NEC.
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