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catnhatnh

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8. I know this is wildly speculative...

Reply to catnhatnh (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2015, 01:44 PM

May 2015

...and PROBABLY wrong. And yet you have a guy who is said to be a fanatic about trains in a one-man control situation who accelerates at the most dangerous moment and afterwards has either amnesia or "amnesia"...

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So the Amtrak train was still accelerating seconds before the crash... [View all] catnhatnh May 2015 OP

That's what I thought. alfie May 2015 #1

I don't. Brickbat May 2015 #2

What bothers me is the request for more speed had to be repeated if it was working correctly. In_The_Wind May 2015 #3

I hope it was mechanical but an expert of The Last Word told Lawrence O that there is a mechanism jwirr May 2015 #9

I don't nadinbrzezinski May 2015 #4

Not at all... Cooley Hurd May 2015 #5

I wondered that too but the train driver appears to be very forthcoming Backwoodsrider May 2015 #6

He appears very unforthcoming. former9thward May 2015 #16

Proper infrastructure would remove the ability for the operator to cause harm randys1 May 2015 #7

Yes, it's called PTP B2G May 2015 #12

I know this is wildly speculative... catnhatnh May 2015 #8

A train fanatic interested in suicide by train would know better ways to do it. Gormy Cuss May 2015 #10

He has a head injury. Are_grits_groceries May 2015 #11

The alarm in my head was more Grateful Dead FLPanhandle May 2015 #13

No, I don't. n/t onyourleft May 2015 #14

Nope. Crashing a train seems like a spectacularly unreliable suicide method. MindPilot May 2015 #15