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Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
 
From the linked Associated Press material, courtesy Raleigh News & Observer, it does not appear the incident is all that serious. I highly doubt if two Viewliner Sleepers, apparently on rear, will need to be written off, although maybe those two will be the first candidates to be reconfigured to that of the V-II's, if in fact that program will move forth:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/25/3405908/official-amtrak-crescent-derails.html

Brief passage:

From the captioned material, it would appear that Dr. Goebbels has educated the spokesmen in some kind of 'Amspeak' taken from the airline's playbook. Oh, and on 'airlinespeak', there appears to be quite a glossary within this book that I bought last Summer, but so far went into the penalty box about half way through. It ran out of gas with me when I realized, as one who only goes on about four flights a year, what is it telling me that I don't already know about air transport?
 
Posted by notelvis (Member # 3071) on :
 
So 'losing contact with the tracks' is less bad than a derailment?
 
Posted by yukon11 (Member # 2997) on :
 
How about if the wheels had a track phobia?

Richard
 
Posted by Henry Kisor (Member # 4776) on :
 
Or if the wheels and the track had diverging opinions.
 
Posted by Ray S (Member # 3175) on :
 
I am taking train 98 from WPB to WAS leaving this Wed 27th arriving Thurs morning in WAS. Scheduled to then take train 19 Thurs at 6:30pm to NOL. Have a bedroom booked. Think things will be back to normal schedule by then or should I be looking into alternate plans? Thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.
 
Posted by George Harris (Member # 2077) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ray S:
I am taking train 98 from WPB to WAS leaving this Wed 27th arriving Thurs morning in WAS. Scheduled to then take train 19 Thurs at 6:30pm to NOL. Have a bedroom booked. Think things will be back to normal schedule by then or should I be looking into alternate plans? Thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.

I would expec the track to be back in service in a matter of hours. how long before Amtrak gets its equipment locations unscrambled is another story, but sure it could be managed by Thursday.
 


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