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#Amtrak #Infrastructure #Derailment
Three Killed, Dozens Injured in Amtrak Train Derailment
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It’s Trump fault
You’re in the middle of Nowhere, Montana. Of course its going to be the longest stretch of track on the planet. It takes a long time before help on wheels will get to you. Thats why one has to be prepared when an accident happens. What can save you for the next few days until help arrives from the nearest known town?
Hearts go out to the family of the 3 deceased & glad everyone else survived.
@Mundane AudioHead .Your the one that said it’ll take days to reach them.. Read what you wrote. It’s not like everyone is still on horseback there. trains travel that route for a reason.. It’s main use is freight
Mundane AudioHead….. it derailed, just west of the road crossing at Joplin, MT…. they were still within the town limits. The BNSF Hi-Line (mainline) through there, runs approximately 40 plus freights through there every day… in the slow season, and as many as 80+ (including Amtrak & local moves) per day (east & west). They’re only “in the middle of Nowhere, Montana” to “city slickers” like you who live in concrete jungles or close by them… but, to us… it’s hardly in the middle of “Nowhere”.
@acgillespie they also said there are no roads out that direction. Sure, theres villages there. Its up to 72 hours. This was on a clear day & no obstacles. If this was the dead of winter, it could take longer. I also didn’t say ‘it will take days to reach them’. I said, what can save you for the next few days if it takes that long. Could be just 12-24 hours.
@2Stroke Diesel Power excuse me. I am not a city slicker, watch your tongue. I’ve lived in areas where its pitch black & the only thing you see is the stars at night. I consider it the middle of nowhere because there are no roads where they are at.
@Mundane AudioHead .There are 2 major roads right there at the crash site. one paved and one dirt. i used to live there. sorry but your so out of touch with reality here . look at the map
It’s Biden’s fault!
Joe Biden had it done so he could add an extra trillion dollars to the current bill. After all it only take a few loose screws to derail it and it’s been said that Biden has a lot of loose screws laying around.
Or this 1. BREAKING NEWS, It’s reported that the derailment of the Amtrak in Montana was caused by the overloading of over 14000 passengers stuffed in 30 cattle cars attached behind the Amtrak from Del Rio. When asked for comment by the White House, Circle Back just said ” I don’t know I just lie here, I mean work here! It appears that they will be removing all the passengers using 1200 horses that just have to be roaming around up here that no one can tell us where they all came from. The good news is the White House promises that they will all be gone in a hundred years but there is some difficulty in that none of them seem to speak English.
40k deaths from car crashes per year in the US but yet this is what makes the news. Don’t buy into the false narrative that public transit is more dangerous than driving! I love Amtrak 💖 thoughts and prayers to the victims’ families.
@Albert N I’m saying car-related deaths are under-reported and public transit deaths are over-reported. The result is a misleading storyline that public transit is more deadly. To be honest, I’ve never seen a story in mainstream media about how dangerous cars are. This is because our car-dependent society has normalized car crashes, to the point where we call them “accidents” — as if they just happen for no reason and aren’t preventable.
@Romanes eunt domus you’re not comprehending the thrust of my argument. I’m expressing that, on the whole, these freak accidents are covered way more heavily than the horrifying annual statistics for car-related deaths. The result is a prevailing sentiment, exhibited by a lot of the commenters here, that public transit is less safe than driving. It’s not about the little snippet in the video, it’s about how this story has gotten so much attention even though it pales in comparison to the 40k lives lost per year from car-related crashes. We gotta change the narrative
https://youtu.be/GrN7eW2OSWw
I agree.
They are pushing to end the amtrak. Look at why it’s taken so long
Notice how it’s always only Coach class cars that derail and not sleeper class 🤔
I did not notice that here. At least one sleeper car turned on its side. Normally on the Empire Builder, the cars bound for Seattle are at the front and the ones bound for Portland are in the back.
Ozzy Osbourne *Crazy Train*
Dumb people their will never be anything that will be accident free whether walking,driving ,flying,using a train,FSD
And so it begins…. They’ve decided to take action in the states now. Who? Let the FBI investigate that. But I’ve been expecting our most vulnerable assets to be attacked for sometime. Beware Trains, Interstates, and Power Grid structures…. Destruction is their desire, fear are their results, and hate will feed them.
tsk tsk welp always train crashing
There where 157 passengers and 18 Amtrak union employees — and U wonder why the government is going broke
The government needs to replace Amtrak trains with bullet trains like they have in Qingdao, China; it’s speed can reach approximately 370+ miles per hour. I hear Japan has another bullet train in the work that will become the world’s fastest. Amtrak has to retire.
No thanks
this is so sad my heart goes out to the families that lost their loved ones , I have road on Amtrak from the North West to Chicago then to Texas , I also road on Amtrac from the North West down to LA Califonia from their to Texas in Northern California there was a Union Pacifc train laying on the ground right next to the tracks that was derailed , in West Texas the train literally Jumped on the tracks quit a number of times people even screamed every time , on one train one I had to tranfer on to , one of the wheels on the train car I was on sounded like it was gonna come off , I even asked one of the workers about it and so did another passanger , he said its ok it does that all the time its ok ! , well we didn’t think it was ok it sure didn’t sound ok ! the tracks and the trains really do need to be well maintained all the time , for safty reasons ,peoples lives should be importent and a priority , I been to Europe and their rail system is by far much better then ours and safer and you can get any where , for us being the greatest nation in the world why do we lack soooooooooo far behind , If I wanted to go to Colorado form the North West I have to go to Chicago or LA California first by rail then tranfer to another train , we really need more tracks going different derections to a lot more places . I haven’t been on Amtrac in a few years not feeling all that safe now its to bad I really like riding on trains and I wish all the long distance trains had cooks and a resraurant , that vending food for 3 days is allful I seen on a show about trains there are about 250 train werck’s a year in America we never hear about most of them
Some of those Amtrak cars are so rickety. And when you get a rotten crew it makes the ride all the less pleasant,
They just inspected the tracks three days ago. Sure they did.
I was just planning a trip traveling by Amtrak… then I saw this… thanks I’ll drive there now
Statistically this is less safe but you might feel safer because you’re in control of the vehicle youre in but not of other’s.
You are hundreds of times more likely to die driving a car than taking Amtrak. 40,000 people die each year in the US in car accidents while only 192 people have died in Amtrak’s entire existence while traveling on Amtrak.
Embarrassing transportation with a freaking rip off prices. A total scam!
Amtrak Empire Builder
I pray for everyone.
They thoroughly show this but not all the car crashes that happen every day.
And of course cell phones and texting is never the cause of that stupid person killing your whole family
They have money for wars, bailouts, immigrants, other countries. But can’t seem to spend a penny on rail repairs. Yeah, and they want high speed rail pufff……
Last November, former Washington state Democratic organizer Ellen Reiche, 28, was one of two people charged in the terrorist attack seeking to derail trains in the coastal city of Bellingham.
Since January of last year, 41 shunts have been placed on the Bellingham tracks, with the BNSF police and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force working together on the case.
The pair were caught trespassing in surveillance video and detained by Whatcom sheriff’s deputies, who discovered the shunt in the tracks and saw that Reiche was carrying a paper bag containing gloves, a drill, magnetic adhesive, and other items that would be used to install a shunt.
According to the affidavit, claims of responsibility for the domestic [tear]ism attack circulated around the Antifa website itsgoingdown
A post on the website encouraged further attacks to disrupt the building of the Canadian Coastal GasLink Pipeline, saying the attacks were done in solidarity with Canadian Native American tribes that are looking to “fight against colonial invasion.”
The tracks are owned by the private freight company BNSF, the government can’t pay a private company like that or the political backlash would be too much.
I’ve ridden that rail line from Chicago to Seattle and my first thoughts were to some of the high drop offs of the mountains in the Dakotas or Montana. Only 3 fatalities would have been a miracle.
…there’s one stretch where the train travels near the rim of Snake River Canyon.
@BC Shelby it goes into Spokane through a 7 mile tunnel in Idaho up to Northern Montana
@Brian coughlin hmm, seems they changed the route somewhat as I remember going along the Snake river and looking down quite a ways at the river itself.
@BC Shelby That’s the spot.. I can still remember it and it’s been some 30 years hence.
Wow. This is so sad. Unreal.
Did you also report all de.aths at the bor.der????
Another One AGAIN 💘
In-fuh-structchuh.
Could someone have put something on the track like a 2 x 4?
2×4 is not going to derail a train
Yep, a 2×4 will do it. Even though a 40 ton tractor trailer just gets smacked around into a 100 pieces a 2×4 is like kryptonite to 218 ton locomotives.
@Fred Ulysses Arock II You could be right. I wonder if the ground has become uneven due to fracking. There are around 9,200 oil and natural producing gas wells in Montana. If the ground becomes unstable or compromised, that could cause the tracks to shift.
Ok
If Only we had an Infrastructure Package going through Congress.
Track conditions is results for crash
Time to upgrade… Too many derailments.
Can’t even take the train anymore 🥺💔😵💫😫
@LaShawanna Joyner They say taking the train is safer than the car especially during the holidays.
The USA should at least attempt to look like a world class country, instead of the Third World country it really is. Look at that dirty, worn out train, then go to videos that show the beautiful high speed trains in France, Germany, India, China, S. Korea, Japan, not to mention the Eurostar that runs through about 5 European countries, and there are others. God help us!
Since January of last year, 41 shunts have been placed on the Bellingham tracks, with the BNSF police and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force working together on the case.
Last November, former Washington state Democratic organizer Ellen Reiche, 28, was one of two people charged in the terrorist attack seeking to derail trains in the coastal city of Bellingham.
A post on the anarchist website itsgoingdown encouraged further attacks to disrupt the building of the Canadian Coastal GasLink Pipeline, saying the attacks were done in solidarity with Canadian Native American tribes that are looking to “fight against colonial invasion.”
Audrey Evans….”Look at that dirty, worn out train”… why is it that people who in reality, know the very least of any given subject, always have the most to say?….. and mostly based on pure Ignorance.
The gas lobbyists want you to drive vehicles.
@2Stroke Diesel Power Give over because the USA is a Third World country. That’s it, that’s all.
Lobbyist disagree with you!
This happened too much for amtrak and they need to be gone out of business forever
So am I the only one that’s thinking this might have been terrorism?
In rural Montana? Yeah no.
So sad. I hope no conservative US citizens were hurt:(
Conservative?
This is another covid 19
Chaos seems to mostly be on purpose these days
Remember how the President Praised Amtrak use? Yeah we watching things get worse…Hebrew Up!
Bide is not qualified to change urinal cakes in the train station that is named after him in Delaware….
https://youtu.be/W-vSH71H3wI rip
Old ..use speed rails modern and efficiant
I didn’t mean for this to happen. I was just trying to flatten a quarter 😢
The best thing you can do to protect yourself from a train derailment is to get vaccinated.
Joe Biden
Since January of last year, 41 shunts have been placed on the Bellingham tracks, with the BNSF police and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force working together on the case.
Last November, former Washington state Democratic organizer Ellen Reiche, 28, was one of two people charged in the terrorist attack seeking to derail trains in the coastal city of Bellingham.
Reiche and Brooks, 24, were hit with [tearism] charges for placing a “shunt” on railroad tracks right before a crude oil-shuttling train was scheduled to travel the tracks.
The pair were caught trespassing in surveillance video and detained by Whatcom sheriff’s deputies, who discovered the shunt in the tracks and saw that Reiche was carrying a paper bag containing gloves, a drill, magnetic adhesive, and other items that would be used to install a shunt.
According to the affidavit, claims of responsibility for the domestic [tear]ism attack circulated around the Antifa website itsgoingdown
A post on the website encouraged further attacks to disrupt the building of the Canadian Coastal GasLink Pipeline, saying the attacks were done in solidarity with Canadian Native American tribes that are looking to “fight against colonial invasion.”
Trump supporters will pay for this! In blood!
https://youtu.be/rz5TGN7eUcM
Meanwhile in China…
We should have a bullet train 🚅 going across the USA by now. The other countries have it like Japan and is regularly used and effective.
made in USA
I wonder if the ground has become uneven due to fracking. There are around 9,200 oil and natural producing gas wells in Montana. If the ground becomes unstable or compromised, that could cause the tracks to shift. Shifting could cause a derailment.
So it’s Sunday, the 26th of September 21.
No coverage of the executed humans in Afghanistan, no coverage of the mounting evidence that the virus was man made and knowingly released into the world, no coverage on the President’s son, no coverage that the DelRio underpass victims were injected into Southern Texas population without being vaccinated.. so what’s going on??
Feels like the media are trying to distract us
Yeah it sucks that most stuff get looked at or inspected after an accident.
Was that on Montana rail Link track?
Or BNSF?
BNSF High Line just west of Havre,MT..Amtrak has track rights on that track, I just rode it weeks ago and it was rough right there,I remember it well
@metalfusion67 The high line.
That part of the old Great Northern I know it’s an older part of track there coming through that area I just remember who the original lines were through there.
I kind of confused when you’re rolling a cross I-94 out of Billings and headed towards Butte and to get out there by Bozeman and Livingston and that’s all Montana rail Link country
Omg we need to shut down all rails everyone of them call China and let them know we have to shut down trains because one went off rails just like covid need a world shut down
This was the Empire Builder I’m thinking?
Yup
Two words Infrastructure Bill!! Japan rail system is top of the line. The US have its priorities messed up!
Casey Jones meet Jeremiah Johnson
Amtrak likes to go 90 when their late and on heavily used frieght rails, its going to happen
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It just old infrastructure
Why is it always Amtrak
Lawsuit. Millions
Pandemic stay close to your family
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This could be a form of terrorism. It will be very easy to cause these incidents and it will be impossible to safeguard thousands of miles of track. Both the human toll of passenger trains and economic disruption of supply trains.
Wow! I take these trains all the TIME🙄
lol signs of failed democrazies
I was just to search TRAIN DERAIL in Youtube but THIS SHOWED UP LIKE 16 HOURS AGO HAHA
Sue Amtrack
Why? They don’t own the tracks.
Bnsf is owned by buffet sue him for everthing
The train cars need Doors on the Rooftop that can be unlocked from inside
Amtrak joe(Joe Biden )what do you think?
Hey MSNBC 10 innocent victims were also killed by Biden’s botched drone strike, seven were children in case you haven’t heard. Also after the thirteen Marines tragically killed and our exit there is still trapped terrified Americans holding their breath waiting on Biden to put his ice cream cone down and help them.
This should still be your obsession to report, like the phony Russian Collusion you ridiculously kept peddling.
Maybe OUTDATED rails?????
Are these High speed train ?
Really! Wow. Karma. I knew it.
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Didn’t we had a Amtrak derailment happen a few years back in the northeast? They should’ve seen this coming all this time, I can see why mr. biden pass the infrastructure plan, he has my full support although I’m a Republican
There were Amtrak derailments from the past including the cascades train that derailed and hit the highway below the bridge. Incidents like this are no fun at all, but at least traveling by train is safer than car rides especially during summer breaks and the holidays.
Infrastructure sub par!
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TIME TO DEFUND AMTRAK
Amtrak receives little to no federal funding. It is expected to be run as a for-profit company so “defunding” it will do very little.
This is nothing new. Amtrak trains have been doing this for years.
It must have been a slight hill in the train track that was like a small ramp, and with how fast those Amtrak trains go at times it probably caused the train engine or/& some train cars to jump the track!🚆
They should consider that some sick people put something on the track to derail it on purpose.. oh there’s a lot of sick people out there….
Run em into the ground boys! Lack of inspection and repairs, mechanical failure! We’ll never know the truth to many of our elected officials are stockholders…………
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Biden’s America Weapons of mass transit
you have to grab onto something when the train is tilting otherwise extremely dangerous if you fell where the windows are being grinded against the ground.
I have seen trains derail At slow pace. If the track not perfectly aligned well they fall off. Rail companies are getting cheaper when they repair the track. They now put one spike inside and one outside and that’s it.
When i was doing tracks , it was two inside, and two outside and one other lag spike for the plate.
Why we did so many , it was for high speed trains going 50+mph or higher. And in my days done by hand, today its machines and i say it’s not good enough.
God bless families
If a plane crashed with that many on board, there wouldn’t even be 3 survivors.
Depends on the circumstances
oh my god… condolences to the victims, R.I.P
Inside job
Sorry for the victims, and injuries. Prayers❤🙏😣
I was on this train some years back. My condolences to the victims.
I actually seen it happen.
my dad was a Great Northern engineer and that was his main route for 20 years back in 1950-60s. Never had problems on that line except for an occasional cow
the absolute state of American infrastructure
I found it funny I took my very first Amtrak ride and when I got off in Texas I said “That wasn’t so bad; I think I’ll take the train more often.” And immediately after Amtrak sent me the alert to this derailment.