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Reply to "NTSB Comes down hard on AMTRAK, FRA, Wash. ST. DoT, and Sound Transit"

Big Jim posted:

Our curve speed boards were, I'm guessing, no more than a half mile at most from the start of the curve/s. But no matter, once you learned the territory you knew where the curve was.

 

Given the speeds that the Cascades would be running prior to that curve (I think they could be going well past 60 as close as the DuPont yard before the curve in the incident), would half a mile be realistic for a curve speed sign?

I've ridden the Cascades a few times. Ironically, what I thought was my last chance to ride the Puget Sound portion between Seattle and Centralia on Jul 2, 2017, my wife and I wound up getting stuck in Tacoma due to the northbound train going through a derail at the Chambers Bay Bridge and nothing allowed to go past the site southbound (eventually, a friend of my wife's came and drove us home. the train was still stuck there after several hours).

I never did find out what happened to the engineer in this accident...

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