I didn't even know those pieces of shit could get up to 100mph
Fam all passenger trains can get up to 100 mph
BREAKING: 5 dead, at least 50 injured after Amtrak train derails in Philadelphia
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Fam all passenger trains can get up to 100 mph
I didn't even know those pieces of shit could get up to 100mph
Fam all passenger trains can get up to 100 mph
You's just a praying lie.
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I ride the train a lot and that's probably a ride I would of been on coming back home which is such a fucking headache going to NYC as a pit stop before even heading anywhere south.
The train picks up speed but it never goes 100mph especially on the tri-state area because every 20-40minutes is a stop in some fucking town/city and it depends on the conductor some are time freaks and others like to get an go.
Prayers out to the folks that got hurt.
The train picks up speed but it never goes 100mph especially on the tri-state area because every 20-40minutes is a stop in some fucking town/city and it depends on the conductor some are time freaks and others like to get an go.
Prayers out to the folks that got hurt.
John Boehner: Speaker of the House Calls Reporter's Question Regarding Amtrak Funding 'Stupid'
“Are you really going to ask such a stupid question?” Boehner said after the reporter asked him about whether GOP cuts to Amtrak funding might have played a role in Tuesday's fatal train derailment.
House Speaker John Boehner erupted into incredulity today when a reporter attempted to ask him about federal spending for Amtrak.
When Ginger Gibson, senior political writer at the International Business Times, attempted to ask Boehner about criticism from Democrats that Amtrak was not funded well enough, Boehner, R-Ohio, cut her off.
“Are you really going to ask such a stupid question?!” Boehner asked in apparent disbelief.
“Listen, you know they started this yesterday. ‘It’s all about funding. It’s all about funding,’” Boehner said, apparently mocking complaints by congressional Democrats. “Well, obviously it’s not about funding. The train was going twice the speed limit!”
Boehner further contended that funding for Amtrak is “adequate” and added that “no money has been cut from rail safety.”
“It’s hard for me to imagine that people take the bait on some of the nonsense that gets spewed around here,” he said, abruptly ending his news conference.
On Wednesday, the House Appropriations Committee passed a bill to reduce grants to Amtrak in fiscal year 2016 to more than $250 million below spending levels for fiscal year 2015. Proponents of the measure say the cuts are made not to Federal Railroad Administration operating costs or safety, but rather “entirely” to Amtrak capital -- such as infrastructure improvements.
Moments before Boehner’s news conference, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., began her own news conference by calling Tuesday night’s derailment outside Philadelphia “a constant reminder that we must strengthen the confidence and safety in our infrastructure.”
“In order to have safety in infrastructure, you have to have strong infrastructure,” Pelosi said, knocking Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee for blocking Democratic efforts to bolster funding for Amtrak to meet levels requested by the president in his budget request.
“Now we are wiser about the need and the urgency and, hopefully, we can be bipartisan in how we come together,” she added.
Pelosi would not say whether $1.3 billion appropriated for Amtrak that she helped usher through Congress in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is explicitly insufficient, but contended “Republicans have been very much against Amtrak for a long time.”
“I think that, obviously, these needs are big,” Pelosi said. “This is about our economy. It’s about our safety. It’s about quality of life, clean air. It’s so important for us to do.”
The full House and Senate must now consider the bill before current funding runs out at the end of September.
“Are you really going to ask such a stupid question?” Boehner said after the reporter asked him about whether GOP cuts to Amtrak funding might have played a role in Tuesday's fatal train derailment.
House Speaker John Boehner erupted into incredulity today when a reporter attempted to ask him about federal spending for Amtrak.
When Ginger Gibson, senior political writer at the International Business Times, attempted to ask Boehner about criticism from Democrats that Amtrak was not funded well enough, Boehner, R-Ohio, cut her off.
“Are you really going to ask such a stupid question?!” Boehner asked in apparent disbelief.
“Listen, you know they started this yesterday. ‘It’s all about funding. It’s all about funding,’” Boehner said, apparently mocking complaints by congressional Democrats. “Well, obviously it’s not about funding. The train was going twice the speed limit!”
Boehner further contended that funding for Amtrak is “adequate” and added that “no money has been cut from rail safety.”
“It’s hard for me to imagine that people take the bait on some of the nonsense that gets spewed around here,” he said, abruptly ending his news conference.
On Wednesday, the House Appropriations Committee passed a bill to reduce grants to Amtrak in fiscal year 2016 to more than $250 million below spending levels for fiscal year 2015. Proponents of the measure say the cuts are made not to Federal Railroad Administration operating costs or safety, but rather “entirely” to Amtrak capital -- such as infrastructure improvements.
Moments before Boehner’s news conference, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., began her own news conference by calling Tuesday night’s derailment outside Philadelphia “a constant reminder that we must strengthen the confidence and safety in our infrastructure.”
“In order to have safety in infrastructure, you have to have strong infrastructure,” Pelosi said, knocking Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee for blocking Democratic efforts to bolster funding for Amtrak to meet levels requested by the president in his budget request.
“Now we are wiser about the need and the urgency and, hopefully, we can be bipartisan in how we come together,” she added.
Pelosi would not say whether $1.3 billion appropriated for Amtrak that she helped usher through Congress in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is explicitly insufficient, but contended “Republicans have been very much against Amtrak for a long time.”
“I think that, obviously, these needs are big,” Pelosi said. “This is about our economy. It’s about our safety. It’s about quality of life, clean air. It’s so important for us to do.”
The full House and Senate must now consider the bill before current funding runs out at the end of September.
That train was derailed big as shit...either with a derailer or some type of explosive device laying on the tracks. A prior train had its windshield cracked when something hit it in the same area, a SEPTA train?
So why would engineer honk at a curve?
He wouldn't.
A witness living in area reported a series of sharp train horn blasts followed immediately by explosions.
TAC Air (police helicopter) reported a CSX engine with lights on, hooked up to 18 cars.
There is no guarantee that the Amtrak engineer was the one who sounded the horn; that could have been the CSX horn, giving an audio signal--as well as providing a reference light--to a saboteur.
If you look at where the train derailed, a derailer could have been placed there specifically to send Amtrak flying into the pack of oil trains, with the saboteur hoping to blow car #2 (first passenger car) up and set the whole county on fire.
But he pushed the button a hair too soon, and melted #2 to the grassy area. Had he waited even one second more, it's likely many or all of those oil tankers (and lord knows what else was there) would have blown.
I think the train horn is key--the fact, especially, that it was not laid into like you'd expect in a real imminent collision, but that it gave "a series of short, sharp blasts" followed immediately by the explosions.
Remember it has already been reported that the engineer slammed on the e-brake...
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