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To: FJB who wrote (857422)	5/15/2015 6:37:40 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576601

......different time....... different place......similar circumstances.......same result..............will this engineer cop the same plea?

To: FJB who wrote (857422)	5/15/2015 7:03:19 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576601

From what I heard this afternoon on the news, the engineer would have had to increase the speed manually. Maybe he fell asleep and his unconscious hand did it .... ?

To: FJB who wrote (857422)	5/15/2015 7:08:43 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576601

Speed Control Was Installed, Not On at Time of Amtrak Crash A system that could have remotely slowed the Amtrak train that crashed wasn’t enabled. A computer system that allows speeding trains to be slowed remotely – potentially averting deadly derailments – was installed in the section of track in Philadelphia where Tuesday’s fatal Amtrak crash occurred but had not been turned on, congressional sources tell U.S. News. “The PTC was installed in the section of track where the Philadelphia accident occurred, but for whatever reason had not been turned on, the PTC in that section,” Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., tells U.S. News, referring to "positive train control." His account was corroborated by Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md. “The tracks had PTC, the train had PTC,” Harris says. Both congressmen are members of the House Appropriations Committee, which contacted Amtrak for more information about the crash. The train, Amtrak Northeast Regional 188 from the nation's capital to New York City, was hurtling at more than twice the recommended speed limit when it jumped the tracks just after 9 p.m. Yet the technology that could have slowed it had not been enabled – allegedly because of delays in installing the system, Harris, Dent and a third congressional source say, citing communications between the Appropriations Committee and Amtrak. "According to Amtrak, PTC was installed in the section of track where the Philly accident occurred," a committee source writes in an email to U.S. News. "There have been delays in 'turning it on' associated with FCC dealings and getting the bandwidth to upgrade the radios from 900 MHz to something higher (for more reliability)." Amtrak's application for the bandwidth needed to use the positive train control system was approved in "early March," an FCC official says. “The spectrum Amtrak wanted to use in 2011 was owned by someone else," the official says. "It took them three more years to negotiate with private parties to acquire the needed spectrum for the Washington, D.C.-to-New York corridor. Once Amtrak finalized their application, the commission approved it within two days.” Amtrak President Joseph Boardman said Thursday the technology was installed where the crash occurred, according to The Associated Press, but it had not been turned on because the system needed to be tested further. Positive train control uses radio and GPS signals as well as other technologies to detect and reduce trains' speed. Congress demanded the technology be implemented nationwide by 2015 after a California train collision left 25 people dead and more than 100 injured in 2008. ............ [ The Congressionally imposed deadline is year end 2015. ] usnews.com IOW all this stuff about infrastructure funding is just Democrat's BS. The VA, Obamacare, EPA, and Amtrack .... if the feds run it, it's FU'd up.