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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vincent206: [QB] The deadly curve at the Mounts Road overpass would have been eliminated for 110 mph tracks, but for 79 mph trains the curve wasn't eliminated. I know Amtrak trains handle 79 mph to 30 mph transitions every day without incident. So, why did this accident happen? I suspect that the newness of the alignment combined with the lack of experienced "old hands" will be a significant factor in the crash. In most businesses there usually is a certain amount of "institutional knowledge" about procedures that is passed along to newbies regarding successful best practices. But in this case there wasn't any institutional knowledge to be handed down because nobody had any real experience on the territory. We humans usually learn more from our mistakes than from our textbooks (or timetables). And, unfortunately, this mistake turned into tragedy. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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