[PRCo] Re: Amtrack derailment

[Donald Galt]

On 22 Apr 2002 at 10:49, ROGER Jenkins wrote:

> 
> Actually on TV a NTSB inspector said the mis-alignment of track was
> caused by a heavy coal train running on a super-elevated curve too
> slowly and pushed the downside rail out of guage. Dosn't sound like the
> ties in that section were in  good shape  to not hold track in place.
> Fault CSX RR , the owner.
> 

We have been told for years of the basic incompatibility between 
high-speed (by US standards, anyhow) passenger trains and the 
slow, heavy bulk trains that have become the bread and butter of 
the rail lines.

Don