How is track matineance performed on a daily basis anyways? For example, do they have to work on one section at a time, even if it was say, one mile long?
Why is CSX so lazy anyways? If anyone is listening there at CSX, my one piece of advice would be to, in this instance with the A.T., take responsibility for your own actions, please. They may not realize or simply just may not care that this will only hurt Amtrak, the people that ride Amtrak, and the railroading industry itself. Therefore, they've pretty much shot themselves in the foot, even though they weren't found to be at fault, though the higher-ups do know, that when it comes right down to it, they were.
Which reminds me of some other derailment. August, 08,1997. I believe that was the correct date. The eastbound SW Chief derails in Arizona somewhere after the crew change point in Kingman, AZ - due to heavy downpours in the surrounding areas that caused a bridge to go bye-bye. :unsure:
My only question is this. How could a track matainist or bridge foreman (or whatever
) come out to the site a mere 20-30 minutes before the train crashed and then the bridge gets washed out? If that is really the case, it's a miracle then how nature does work. After all, even though the train was doing about 90-92 mph, there were no fatalities, thank goodness, which does speak volumes for the Superliner equpment.
But, my point is, is that I think we need more precautions, money spent on, and serious inquires made on America's rails. I think a wise move would have been to at least have the train slow down to at the most 40mph. Now, I don't really know if that would've helped, but it may have. Alas, we will never know, now will we. :unsure: