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For the second time in a week, amid ongoing discussions on infrastructure spending, a train has derailed in Pennsylvania. As CBS Pittsburgh reports, emergency crews have been called to a freight train derailment in Hazelwood. At least 10 cars are off the track but no injuries have been reported yet.

 

A train derailment caused several rail cars to overturn in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood Thursday morning, according to investigators.

 

The derailment happened shortly before 10:30 a.m. along Second Avenue, near the Hot Metal Bridge. A command post has been established at Second Avenue and Greenfield.

 

Channel 11 has learned that the cars were empty.

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Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:03 | 6093126 Occams_Chainsaw
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Maybe Amtrak needs to hire Mr. Topenhat to help out.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:08 | 6093155 TeamDepends
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Tyler, check out the CBS Philly report that a commuter train was hit by a projectile twenty minutes before the first derailment. This is starting to stink.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:13 | 6093184 AlaricBalth
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These train derailments are clearly a threat by foreign factions to instill terror into the hearts and minds of good law-abiding Americans. It is our civic duty to rally around the government and allow them to further taper our civil and human rights in order for us to feel safer during these turbulent times.

Zerohedgers, let us please come together as one voice and one unit to collectively help the powers who watch over us, and care for us, erradicate this dreadful threat.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:19 | 6093211 VinceFostersGhost
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We prefer trains to pipelines when it comes to transporting oil. It's a safety thing.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:25 | 6093232 TeamDepends
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It's bin Laden. He has risen from the dead so Barry can take him out again. "We have some trains".

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:29 | 6093261 Perseus son of Zeus
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Trains are filthy disgusting modes of transportation. Now they are deadly. Ban all trains in USSA!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:31 | 6093268 Richard Chesler
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We derailed some folks...

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:53 | 6093358 clooney_art
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PA is a "high tax state and nothing to show for" state.

Infrastructure is crumbling and they are itching to raise more tax.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:54 | 6093368 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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this wouldnt happen if they just renew the patriot act

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:57 | 6093381 forexskin
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who is john galt?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:00 | 6093392 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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shit, i can't even remember my name half the time due to poor medical care and a bad attitude to fuck head doctors that constantly overcharge for their ignorance... my fault is i would rather suffer than deal with the fuckhead extortion artists.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:11 | 6093437 AIIB
Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:23 | 6093470 HowdyDoody
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Its all just a bad case of Jewish Derailment.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:51 | 6093591 Herd Redirectio...
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We derailed some folks.

Stuxnet, its not just for industrial power plant sabotage any more.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:36 | 6094190 DutchR
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Call Denzel, he can drive trains like nobody's business....

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:16 | 6093453 Hotmustard
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Those tracks are not made of Reardon metal, that's for sure.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 22:34 | 6095795 TheReplacement
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Most derailments since Lehman?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:41 | 6093545 ChanceIs
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"We derailed some folks."

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:14 | 6093190 chunga
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http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/05/13/septa-says-commuter-train-hi...

A spokeswoman for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority says there’s no indication that the incident is related to the derailment.

 

SEPTA spokeswoman Jerri Williams says they don’t know what the projectile was. It broke the engineer’s window around 9:25 p.m. Tuesday near SEPTA’s North Philadelphia station. No injuries were reported.

 

Williams says the Trenton-bound commuter train was stopped and the incident was being investigated when the Amtrak derailment happened about 3½ miles away.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:10 | 6093166 indygo55
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That other train where all those people died was traveling 102 MPH into a curve. I we are supposed to believe that that train relies solely on one man to slow the train down into a dangerous curve? Really? They dont have any computerized system that will automatically slow the train down? I call bullshit. These trains are totally automatic. They are continuously monitored every second of the day. You dont even need an engineer these days. That crash was BULLSHIT and so is this one. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:13 | 6093182 gatorengineer
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Sorry, they do rely on the engineer....  Lets see what the drug tests and cell phone records show....  My guess, he was either loaded, and or texting /watching porn.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:43 | 6093313 QQQBall
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Seems weird that they would not have a govenor on the train speed... DO you ever want a short-haul commuter train doing 100+ mph?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:58 | 6093386 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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i don't want to suggest mind-fucking technologies used at appropriate times, but i will....  

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:08 | 6093430 Zpigs
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The Northeast Regional goes up to 125mph.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:39 | 6094213 DutchR
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What, no software problem?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:05 | 6093632 indygo55
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They don't need anyone. They can fly planes by wire now if they get into trouble and they can slow trains down.

Watch and you will understand.

https://youtu.be/8xevsD-xJW4

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:22 | 6093671 SofaPapa
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"My guess, he was either loaded, and or texting /watching porn."

This was my first guess.

But...

He's being awfully cooperative if so.  He's given the police every single thing they need to hang him if it is him who did it.  Doesn't seem to fit the personality of the guy who would have behaved in the way to create the wreck.  There may be more to this story.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:14 | 6093192 CrazyCooter
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It is all good, nature has properly equipped men to handle dangerous curves. :-)

Carry on!

Regards,

Cooter

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:09 | 6094338 DaddyO
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Good Point, at my age, I've handled dangerous curves many times and almost always come out with nary a scratch...

Some have proven more dangerous than others, the current set of curves have been beneath my wheels for almost thirty years, hehehe...

DaddyO

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:18 | 6093207 KnuckleDragger-X
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There are system designs, and every time something like that happens they talk about installing automated safety controls. Of course then we have people like the unions jumping in to stop it. Having a human in the circuit is a good thing but should only be one link in the chain.....

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:25 | 6093230 CarpetShag
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Memories are very short these days. Same happened on Spain in 2013

It is obviously much too expensive to install automated speed regulation systems - imagine what that would do ticket prices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_rail_disaster

Nothing on the sexual orientation of the engineer in that article.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 22:38 | 6095805 TheReplacement
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Dads used to use a hose clamp as a throttle govenor for young Billy's driving forays.  How odd that limiting speed on a train is so impossible these days.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:29 | 6093712 exonomic halfbreed
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The computerized system failed so perhaps cyber attacks are the new blowback.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:42 | 6093308 Sonic the porcupine
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I think terrorists are hijacking these trains to crash them into the freedom tower. We must empower the government to stop them before it is too late!

 

God bless America! USA USA USA!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:08 | 6093432 Katastrofenhausse
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Naw, they need this badass diesel engine

http://i.imgur.com/KmKKsTV.jpg

CHOO CHOO Muthafuckas!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 22:17 | 6095737 StychoKiller
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That's "SIR Topemhat" to you, may Sodor forgive you!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:02 | 6093128 Divine Wind
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Bullish for iron works.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:17 | 6093205 iClaudius
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I'm investing in undertakers.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:18 | 6093206 toady
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Bearish for railroad barons 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:03 | 6093132 salvadordaly
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This all seems to be to convienent. Never let a crisis go to waste?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:04 | 6093138 Occams_Chainsaw
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Democrat drivers on run down Repuplican rails.  What could possibly go wrong?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:10 | 6093164 ceilidh_trail
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...Buffett- whoever is in power rails... - Fixed it for ya!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:04 | 6093136 Beam Me Up Scotty
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Who put a penny on the tracks??

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:05 | 6093139 saints51
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Is the millennials again at work?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:05 | 6093140 youngman
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If I owned a train company...I would get a bunch of old cars and make a derailment....so the Politicians will give you money to fix your tracks...you know shovel ready jobs...and then when they give you that money...just use it to buy your stock back.....because you know your rails are ok

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:14 | 6093191 847328_3527
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" If you want to keep your decaying infrastructure, you can keep your decaying infrastructure."

 

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:16 | 6093197 gatorengineer
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"private infrastructure" fixed it for you.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:38 | 6093287 Lea
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"private infrastructure" fixed it for you."

Yeap. Maintenance doesn't make money, so to hell wih it. So much for the "healthy" rule of private corporations, no State ownership and other assorted idiotic statements.

If you like your private-run, decaying country where everything goes to shit, you can have your private-run, decaying country where everything goes to shit.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:46 | 6093329 Sophist Economicus
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Uhm, AMTRAK is a public entity that TRIES to operate like a public company to make a 'profit'

 

Sorta like the US Post Office...

 

Sorry to upset your lefty rant

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:38 | 6093762 Enceladus
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pretty sure CSX owns the rail though

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:35 | 6093958 Totentänzerlied
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If only we had some kind of government and massive regulatory infrastructure with billions of dollars and enormous manpower to magically make everything good. Oh wait, we do and we always have

Nothing is "private-run" in any first-world nation in the world and has not been for a century. When you can move the goalposts, making every goal is not impressive.

Please explain why the largest most spendthrift most powerful government in history is not on top of this situation? Just how many more trillions in debt would it take?

[Of course this is setting out from the unexamined premise that infrastructure decay is worse than it was before, which is absurd, because "before" there simply was no infrastructure to assess the decay of.]

Maintenance doesn't make money, it prevents ruinous future costs and prevents your customers from, you know, getting tired of getting maimed/killed and telling your company to go to hell by organizing boycotts, filing class-action lawsuits, and ceasing to patronize it.

So here's the second problem with your thesis: that people are not willing to accept risk. Where is the outrage over automobile deaths? Are automobile deaths somehow a result of the private run driving sector which does not exist and makes no sense? Cars kill more people every day than train crashes do in 10 years. Who runs the road system and writes the traffic laws?

Here's a further issue: there's always a point at which additional expense ceases to bring additional benefit. No amount of maintenance or regulation is ever going to make anything absolutely risk-free. The fact that you don't think twice before stepping onto a train is your problem, not mine. How many people think twice before driving for a few miles, statistically vastly more dangerous than riding a train for any distance pretty much anywhere in the world.

If you like living in a dreamworld where if only all aspects of human life were publicly organized and sufficiently regulated, you can keep your US road system and its current 2500-3000 deaths per month. That's what happens when there is absolutely no incentive to make anything better even when doing so would cost less than not.

http://www.saferoads.org/federal/2004/TrafficFatalities1899-2003.pdf

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:35 | 6094187 ncdirtdigger
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Because $800 billion of "stimulus" just wasn't enough?
#whatadumbassyouare

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:35 | 6093284 Honey Badger
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"We derailed some folks."

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:14 | 6093193 gatorengineer
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well maybe someone should ask how they have money for stock buy backs, and not money for maintenance... just saying

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:02 | 6093398 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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as my parents have taught me so well, it is the appearance of wealth rather than the principle of it that is important... luckily the good book says honor them, not love them... 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:16 | 6093198 Matt
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Are the rails owned by the train companies? Maybe they just need bigger fines for derailments to incentivize them to spend more on maintenance. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:05 | 6093141 NoWayJose
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And we still have people advocating for rail transport of oil instead of pipelines!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:06 | 6093146 WhoIsJohnGaltCoin
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Almost out of a certain book...I can't quite put my alias on it

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:08 | 6093157 saints51
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You do realize more hints will likely be needed.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:35 | 6093280 Perseus son of Zeus
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Not for me. When John puts Coin on track derailments happen.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:08 | 6093154 ceilidh_trail
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Before someone gets all weewee'd up about infrastruture spending, let's remember that the tracks and rolling stock are privately owned by the railroad companies. Maintainance is their responsibility, not us taxpayers. Anecdotally, I see CSX /Southern/L&N always working on tracks in the Cincinnati/NKY area. I would be pretty sure they do elsewhere as well.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:09 | 6093163 Atomizer
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Very tragic. My condolences to the families.

The central planners should take note regarding the high speed derailment of our economy. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:11 | 6093165 Vylahkinnen
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Almost a daily occurrence at this point...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:12 | 6093174 czarangelus
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If only the derailleur on my bike worked this consistently.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:15 | 6093179 Chuck Knoblauch
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Train engineers need to wear a tin foil hat.

It will prevent you from your brain turning off on command.

If that sounds crazy, I agree with you, but we live in a crazy man's world.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:07 | 6093422 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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had to down vote you just because all tin foil hats do is turn your head into a hf resonance chamber..  need some ferrite to deal with magnetic fields and low frequency signals... remember brain operates at very low frequencies... <100Hz if I am not mistaken... very long wave lengths... tin foil will go not be scene as a barrier if the source signals are of that nature...  and high frequencies may go in but they will probably stay in due to refraction from the other side.... just some thoughts... i took back that down air due to the correct nature of your last line

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:13 | 6093180 Hubbs
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Instead of actually repairing/ constructing new transporation systems (although with no manufacturing, one has to ask why do we need any new  transport  infrastructure  anymore) the new growth industries are: getting more inspectors (not repair crews), TV media coverage so people can watch the collpase instead of doing anything about it,  and lawyers to feast like the maggots they are off the dead carcass of what used to be America.

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:18 | 6093208 Matt
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Just run the trains slower. As the infrastructure decays more and more, just go slower and slower. Seems simple enough.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:14 | 6093189 kowalli
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RECOVERY

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:15 | 6093194 Tsar Pointless
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That's not very far from where I live. I've been on a hiking trail right next to thoee tracks. They always have appeared to be in shoddy shape to me.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:18 | 6093209 barry2001
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If you are interested in drones check out this site : www.pickyourdrone.com

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:22 | 6093221 WtfBatman
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is it just me or is Atlas Shrugged slowly moving from fact to fiction?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:53 | 6093362 hound dog vigilante
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you mean from fiction to non-fiction...

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 05:52 | 6096327 WtfBatman
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too much flouride clearly makes symptoms of dyslexia transpire, yeah I had those two the wrong way around unintentionally ...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:03 | 6093406 gtb
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Slowly?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:24 | 6093228 p00k1e
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Hopefully Warren gets a bailout to improve all the train tacks….  Average people are getting hurt.

 

We need a federal Transportation Infrastructure Tax on Sales, or TITS. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:48 | 6093339 QQQBall
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Pookie +1

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:26 | 6093236 European American
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Psychotronic Weapon?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:26 | 6093237 surf0766
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MOAR EBT cards will fix this.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:35 | 6093244 CHX
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The train wrecks are an omen... Small foreplays to the main event, when the USDerails...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:27 | 6093245 large_wooden_badger
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"We derailed some folks..."

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:27 | 6093252 Sofa King
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Things have been getting a little too Ayn Rand-ish for me.

I'm going to start watching the Karashisns and zone out like the rest of society.

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 09:24 | 6096803 large_wooden_badger
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That movie sucked so bad, cardboard acting.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:29 | 6093259 laomei
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don't you love how whenever ANYTHING happens, the immediate reaction is "was it terrorism!?!?!", because that's what it is now, it's so fucking transparent that it's pathetic.  america is so fucked right now it is desperate for an excuse (even a fake one) to bang those war drums again.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:34 | 6093278 Bill of Rights
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I can hear Buffet now...

 

INSURANCE CHECK IN THE MAIL BITCHES!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:37 | 6093293 mcbond
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No matter what caused Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 to derail as it rounded a bend in Philadelphia, it looks like technology could have prevented the crash, a top transportation official said Wednesday.

...

CBS News transportation safety analyst Mark Rosenker explains what could have caused an Amtrak train traveling from Washington D.C., to New York City to derail.

Latest:

http://tersee.com/#!q=derail&t=text

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 09:23 | 6096795 Ginsengbull
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They put speed governors on cars and trucks.

 

They put body cameras on cops.

 

They can't put telemetry and controls on trains carrying hundreds of souls, or thousands of tons of freight.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:40 | 6093304 localizer
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USSA infrastructure starting to crack at the seams. This is just the beginning since transit infrastructure is the first thing to suffer when they start cutting corners... but who cares about infrastructure when you must police the globe and sponsor orange revolutions all over the place?!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:44 | 6093318 TomGa
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Taggart Transcontinental seems to be having more and more problems.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:50 | 6093347 roadhazard
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If we just had high speed rail ...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:52 | 6093356 DutchBoy2015
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You can't have it because it requires real engineering and big infrastructure changes.  

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:54 | 6093365 TomGa
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We did, until it tried making a turn.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:55 | 6093370 DutchBoy2015
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Barcelona to Paris on TGV , with Class.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjuJm9FS0Lw

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:09 | 6093435 DutchBoy2015
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Vienna to London by train in a single day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwIEAV3e8mI

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:34 | 6093513 buyingsterling
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All things being equal, I'll keep the shitty infrastructure and they can keep their even higher taxes. Besides, if having a shiny new national infrastructure means that we do it now in the land of hoax and fraud, we'll get flank steak but pay for lobster. Scratch that, we won't pay for any of it if we do it now, someone might force our kids to pay, or more likely they'll default, so let's go for it.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:02 | 6093623 DutchBoy2015
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I have much more disposable income here than I ever had living in the USA.  Add up all your nickel and dime taxes and you willl come up with MORE than what we pay and you have a shitty infrastructure to show for it.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:13 | 6093447 Phat Stax
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Shovel ready, right? 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:17 | 6093457 Eagle Keeper
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This country is turning into one big train wreck

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:42 | 6093549 BoredRoom
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-1 for 'turning into'

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:33 | 6093510 DutchBoy2015
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We sent our Dutch engineers to New Orleans to show the US Army Corps of Engineers how to do real 21st century system  (this was before Katrina).  USA said ''too expensive''

Just like with everything, America does things on the cheap, (except when bombing and destroying other people's countries).

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:40 | 6093542 BoredRoom
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Dutch = NancyBoy Faggots

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:55 | 6093601 Herd Redirectio...
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If there's one thing the Dutch know its dykes and fine pipeweed.  Two things.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:59 | 6093617 DutchBoy2015
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You should know about that. Mr. Closet boy faggot

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:31 | 6094169 ncdirtdigger
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We sent our US bankers to Brussells, and next thing you know, you guys are buying hundreds of Billions of $ of US Treasuries. #winning!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:51 | 6094269 Hope Copy
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Ya, just look at the 11 inch (28CM) highways..  They just crack up...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:39 | 6093534 BoredRoom
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OBOWELMOVEMENT + WARREN BUFFET$$$$ - KEYSTONE PIPELINE = TRACK DAMAGE +  DEAD AMERICANS

 

 

 

 

dew da maff

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:50 | 6093588 Billy Shears
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STOP ALL THE AMERICAN MILITARY "INTERVENTIONS' AND WARS and maybe you'd have some money for our "neglected" infrastructure. And, by the way, just when was the last time the US government paid for any infrastructure improvements out of fiscal revenues??? Yeah, just what I figured... .

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:54 | 6093597 BoredRoom
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What wars? Isn't that why Obama got the Nobel peace prize, and why you loony leftists elected him in the first place?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:05 | 6093631 RougeUnderwriter
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Call Dagny Taggart - Who is John Galt

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:05 | 6093633 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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America #1, where Indian train are better maintained...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:19 | 6093672 DutchBoy2015
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Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYvEP6tYvP0

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:49 | 6093800 rsnoble
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Not passenger cars.  Irrelevant bullshit.  Not that uncommon.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:53 | 6093819 ZippyBananaPants
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investigators are convinced the projectile was shot from inside the engineer room. A white murky substance was found dripping down the glass next to the playgirl collection.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:11 | 6093884 TheABaum
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Whoever wrote this story for CBS Pittsburgh knows nothing about Pennsylania or railroads.

"Miniscule shifts in track geometry" do not cause derailments.

Pennsylvania has also been spending LOTS of money on freight railroads through PennDot's  Bureau of Rail Freight Assistance.

http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Internet/Bureaus/pdBRF.nsf/RailFreightHomepage?OpenFrameset 

They've also spent a to to make sure the politicians in Harrisburg have lots of trains to Philly and back every day.

 

 

 

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 09:19 | 6096773 Ginsengbull
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Slight variance in steel chemistry can cause significant changes in it's coefficient of thermal expansion.

 

Over the length of a rail, this can amount to inches of variance.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 12:33 | 6105896 TheABaum
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That's very interesting. but what does it have to do with "miniscule changes" in "track geometry"? Do you understand that the track is designed to accomodate SIGNIFICANT thermal expansion (well beyond "miniscule") or do you just imagine that you know something about railroads because you have a Lionel?

 

 

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