Major Amtrak train crash - Washington to New York

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I guess you always feel safe until the crash..,

But yes, we have been on this train also. And it was a great trip.
 
sad...I've taken the train between DC and NY :(
 
I better not show my partner this, will freak her out before we travel Amtrak at the end of the year.
 
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I better not show my partner this, will freak her out before we travel Amtrak at the end of the year.

But there are multiple fatal car crashes every day and that doesn't stop people from travelling by car.

If anything, this will make Amtrak investigate procedures and it will be safe again.
 
But there are multiple fatal car crashes every day and that doesn't stop people from travelling by car.

If anything, this will make Amtrak investigate procedures and it will be safe again.

That's the problem with irrational fears... They're not rational.

Hence why we drove 2100km in 24 hours instead of flying after some of the air disasters last year.
 
And like many other posters here I've travelled on this train previously including from Boston to Philadelphia. Hope to travel on it again in Oct down to DC.
 
That's the problem with irrational fears... They're not rational.

Hence why we drove 2100km in 24 hours instead of flying after some of the air disasters last year.

Ok. That is a different issue then.
 
To reassure people AMTRAK cars are built with the highest buffing loads (car body integrity strength) in the world and can withstand accidents other trains would just disintegrate in.

Matt
 
Not good news for travelling public and Amtrak. I suspect busy time ahead for some lawyers with lawsuits soon.

Apparently black box has been recovered. I had believed just commercial airplanes had such.

We made DC to NY return last May. Uneventful trips.
 
Don't let this accident (looks like negligence) put you off. We've done NYC-DC and loved it .... the kids are hooked on train travel and look forward to their next adventures in Europe later this year.
 
Amtrak are really scrambling to convey that everything is ok. Ive got an upcoming trip with them and received an email from them reassuring us that all is ok in the camp
 
Reports here today that possibly caused by a rock through the window distracting the Engineer.Three other trains in the 10 minutes before the crash had rocks thrown at them at the same spot.
But Amtrak are meant to have had speed limiters installed but had delayed that to year's end.
 
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