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Paul and Tommy thanks for the kind words.... Tommy I worked with a guy named Jimmy Meehan in the Warrant Squad back in 2001 he then retired right after 911
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MR77100 wrote:What track were the Conrail units on and what track was the Amtrak train on? Were they both traveling in the same direction? Does anyone know of any diagram of that wreck?The two trains (the Conrail train, ENS-121, was made up of three light engines, B36-7s; the Amtrak train was No. 94 The Colonial), were both on the NEC main line and traveling in the same direction, northbound. The collision took place at Gunpow interlocking where the NEC main line goes from three tracks to two. The Conrail light engines had come out of Baltimore's Bay View yard onto Track 1. Amtrak 94 was operating on Track 2. At Gunpow Track 1 ends and there is a crossover switch located there, connecting Track 1 to Track 2. The crossover switch was lined for a straight through movement on Track 2 (Amtrak 94) and a stop signal was displayed for Track 1 (Conrail ENS-121). The Conrail train failed to stop for the signal protecting the crossover and ran through the switch entering Track 2 directly in front of Amtrak 94.
Tom6921 wrote:Had a GG-1 been leading the train that crashed at Chase, I wonder how much different the outcome would have been and if the G would have been salvageable?I'm not sure if that would be the case at the speed the Amtrak train was traveling. The Conrail units were moving slow and the Amtrak train moving very fast. Basically it was more like a moving object hitting an object at rest.
LIRR272 wrote:272: I agree with you - if a GG1 had been leading the Colonial that day the outcome may have been somewhat different - to an extent...Towards the end of their Amtrak service their GG1sTom6921 wrote:Had a GG-1 been leading the train that crashed at Chase, I wonder how much different the outcome would have been and if the G would have been salvageable?I'm not sure if that would be the case at the speed the Amtrak train was traveling. The Conrail units were moving slow and the Amtrak train moving very fast. Basically it was more like a moving object hitting an object at rest.
With train ENS-121 [Conrail light engines] traveling at 64 mph, when the engineer finally noticed the "stop" aspect displayed by home signal 1N, he was unable to stop the train before it had passed through switch 12 onto track 2....As it was, train 94 struck train ENS-121 at about its maximum authorized speed of 105 mph adding to the severity of the accident.