@GG1 4877 posted:One needs a drink to try and make any sense of the absurdity of several of the comments on this thread. There was an AP article on NPR where an expert summed it up best. To quote:
Allan Zarembski, director of the University of Delaware's Railway Engineering and Safety Program, said he didn't want to speculate but suspected the derailment stemmed from an issue with the train track, equipment, or both.
Until a thorough review of the above is completed, the rest is pointless speculation. At this time, the loss of life, injuries to passengers, and pain to all those personally affected seems to be where the focus should be while the people who are on the ground doing the forensics figure this out.
Bingo. Face it, we're all armchair quarterbacking, experienced folks and novices alike.
We're not on site, we didn't witness the derailment and any image from ground level or above can't tell us how the derailment happened. Nor are we schooled in the investigation of transportation accidents. That's what the NTSB is for.
Might be time to close this thread...
Rusty
