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mcgrath618 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 3:47 pm Not guilty.Thank goodness!! As it should be. It never should have come to this in the first place.
https://abc7ny.com/philadelphia-amtrak- ... /11619333/
west point wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:01 am Second guilty person was Amtrak not activating ATC cab 60 speed at signal before Frankford going northbound. but it was active going south. Remember PRR had an overspeed crash there during WW-2Speaking of that, it's been said here and elsewhere that at one time, a cab signal drop was in place in the eastward direction as well, but at some point it was removed. Nobody seems to know when it was removed, whether it was in the PRR era, under PC control, or under Amtrak control after 1976.
If a GG-1 could do it most certainly a Sprinter would!
nkloudon wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:43 pm This may be untrue, but I read somewhere that the automatic train stop system installed by PRR in the 1930's was deactivated by Amtrak higher-ups because they feared that an accidental sudden stop would be "disturbing" to passengers.Only in the spot that I'm referring to... that's what I'm talking about too. The ATS system itself had never been deactivated, just a cab signal drop related to it in the eastward direction at that location. Otherwise, it has always been intact.
west point wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:01 am Second guilty person was Amtrak not activating ATC cab 60 speed at signal before Frankford going northbound. but it was active going south. Remember PRR had an overspeed crash there during WW-2Someone pointed out awhile back that overspeed was not involved in the WWII wreck; it was equipment failure, either a wheel or an axle on one of the cars.
If a GG-1 could do it most certainly a Sprinter would!
ExCon90 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 9:20 pmYep, that one was a burned-off journal.west point wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:01 am Second guilty person was Amtrak not activating ATC cab 60 speed at signal before Frankford going northbound. but it was active going south. Remember PRR had an overspeed crash there during WW-2Someone pointed out awhile back that overspeed was not involved in the WWII wreck; it was equipment failure, either a wheel or an axle on one of the cars.
If a GG-1 could do it most certainly a Sprinter would!
