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Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:56 am to VolsOut4Harambe
I know several attorneys in Mobile who worked cases relating to that incident.
It was a tragic event that I understand involved myriad human and environmental factors.
It was a tragic event that I understand involved myriad human and environmental factors.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 5:40 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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And is the reason for PTC nowadays.
No it's not.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 6:06 am to financetiger
I lived near where it happened and remember it vividly. It was just an awful tragedy. Some friends of mine tried to sneak into the salvage yard where the wreckage was located to look at the train cars, but got chased away by security. Dumbasses.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 8:59 am to financetiger
I remember this very well. There was a little special needs girl confined to a wheelchair that was on the train with her parents. My brother and I used to play with the little girl as young kids, because her parents used to own the house next to ours. It was a vacation rental house that they would come down to a few times a year during the summer, on the Outer Banks in NC. Her parents died, but someone actually was able to push her out of the train into the water and she somehow survived.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 9:30 am to financetiger
I remember it well - graduated from Daphne that year
Posted on 5/27/21 at 10:04 am to Pfft
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I don’t think Amtrak has ever resumed service through there.
I've ridden the NOLA to NYC route a couple of times and service goes farther north (NOLA-Hattiesburg-Birmingham) nowadays. No idea but I imagine the route is dictated by track access/rights/priority than anything else.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 10:06 am to financetiger
A friend of mine's dad was one of the engineers that died that day. We were in 2nd or 3rd grade. Terrible stuff.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 10:08 am to financetiger
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those people?
racist
Posted on 5/27/21 at 11:33 am to financetiger
R.C. Sproul (evangelist) was on that train. I've heard him speak about it. Horrific
Posted on 5/27/21 at 2:45 pm to financetiger
I watched a crappy documentary about this last night. Never heard of it before. What a wild sequence and fate.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 2:46 pm to Lowndes45
I remember when it happened. It was pretty confusing for a couple of days as to how it all went down. Just a strange sequence of events.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 11:28 pm to martiansgohome
LA and MS are trying to restore Amtrack service between Nola and Mobile. AL is against it because of fears it with disrupt freight transport in Mobile.
Posted on 5/28/21 at 10:00 am to East Coast Band
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I remember well. Did Amtrak service ever resume?
Service resumed shortly after and went until Katrina. It stopped and never started again, even though legally the service is just suspended.
The train came all the way from LA and was always late, a total dog. Imagine how late a train coming from the pacific coast could be moving at 70mph or less.
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