Passenger Trains > NTSB statement on Atk 89?

Any word on when the safety board will offer their first briefing on the Marcus Hook collision?

Thanks.

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Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> Any word on when the safety board will offer their
> first briefing on the Marcus Hook collision?
>

NTSB has yet to make any announcement.
 

On the CBS evening news, the NTSB spokesman said the front facing camera clearly showed the backhoe was occuppying track #3 and was authorized to. They are now looking at why the train was sent down that track.

They're getting somewhere.

GenePoon Wrote:
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> They're getting somewhere.

Its not mysterious.

Did y'all see this Trains article?

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2016/04/04-palmetto-update

 

There is a critical error that the TRAINS article mentions that, if things play out as they appear, is the key to the causation of the crash.  



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/05/16 05:51 by GenePoon.

santafe49 Wrote:
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> On the CBS evening news, the NTSB spokesman said
> the front facing camera clearly showed the backhoe
> was occuppying track #3 and was authorized to.
> They are now looking at why the train was sent
> down that track.

Actually the NTSB guy said they are still investigating who was authorized to be where. They are not sure what the authorization situation was at the time of the crash. We might know a bit more today or tomorrow.

There's several things I don't understand about this article.  First of all, who is the source that TRAINS is using; why don't they identify him or her?  That's kind of suspicious in itself.  Also, the article states that the backhoe belonged to a private contractor.  Yet, other posts say that this was operated by an Amtrak employee.  It really doesn't make any difference.  The equipment should have been, and probably was, protected by an Amtrak employee in charge.  It seems like miscommunication was running rampant in this situation, escalated by the turnover between the track supervisors and/or the dispatchers.  That's why turnover time was called "sacred time" on the Soo LIne; no one could interfere with the transfer between two dispatchers.  That's how important it is.  And I believe that it is probably as important between two EIC's.

I assume the Loram train was on Track 2. Was Tracks 2's signals shunted ?

Regarding the Chester, PA incident- the NTSB gave an overview of their initial investigation yesterday afternoon (4-4-16) and most of what was presented was information of them gathering data from various sources but they did confirm that the MOW Front End Loader WAS on the track along with the locomotive and that additional MOW equipment was on an adjacent track at the accident location. Early this morning the names of the two MOW employees who were killed was given. They were both in their 60's.

Jim
Hatboro, PA

Subject is not worth the time to discuss.  Lets wait for the FACTS.

Trains is nothing more then another Media  had does not have ALL the facts.