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Originally Posted by Guest
Hey genius.. That section of rail is owned by Sound Transit and was brand new after a $181 million upgrade. The train was doing 80mph in a 30mph curve.
Amtrak along with the USPS should be allowed to crumble under its own weight. No more government subsidies..
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For what I seen I doubt that curve was 30 mph limit, probably 50 mph limit. I do agree the train speed was too fast. My guess probably the engineer didn't know the route and wasn't paying attention to instruments. I would think modern train would also have gps screen data and along with the track lighting instrumentation. Now things we don't know? Was the engineer on drugs, fell sleep, control problem (runaway train)' track or wheel problem or car structure failure? We'll see what their finding produce?