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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amtrak207: [QB] The sources quoted saying 30 seconds were passengers, and as I tried to point out earlier, just because they were there doesn't mean they know everything about what happened. This is why the media's dependence on eyewitness accounts annoys me. I believe they were (repeatedy mis-) quoted as saying that was the elapsed time for the whole pileup. When one person pulls the emergency brake, ALL the wheels will lock up, so one individual wheelset can not have contributed to the accident. Penalty for improper use, five pounds. A piece of rail should (theoretically) endure the highest level of stresses as the heaviest item passes over it, which in this case would be the pair of locomotives. But, after they pass over, the roadbed has to recover in time to accept the repeated loadings from the rest of the train. If the roadbed could not recover, the first few cars would have forced the track from a serious misalignment to outright failure. Does anyone have a complete consist report of the train involved in this derailment? The only facts I've been able to find so far is that the lead loco was 838 and one of the cars was coach 34120. Never mind, I just answered my own question, except for the second loco. For the cars involved, see [URL=http://trainweb.org/web_lurker/AmtrakSuperliner/]http://trainweb.org/web_lurker/AmtrakSuperliner/[/URL] for details. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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