Amtrak #371 Chicago Crash November 30, 2007

THat p42 is gone!

ouch

lol, consoles damn near flew out the windshield! good everybodys more or less ok though.

Attention you-tubers!!! Ignore all videos and comments from RRSloth. He is just a green new hire that doesn't know too much about the railroad. I see he is also a foamer and in violation of Union Pacific policy by filming these videos while on duty. His name is WILLIAM L.MYERS working out of Portland, Oregon. The posting of all these videos is currently under investigation.

You've been caught Billy!!!!

Not really his fault though. He might have been a vetran a was used to always getting that sign.

You have to remember that the railroads years ago had their own "styles" of signals. That's how we have color, searchlight, position, and color position signal types. Through the mergers that have gone on over the past few decades, lines with different signal types have been combined. Unless the signals are upgraded for maintenance or financial reasons, they're generally left as is, and crews must learn their routes and the signals on them.

Engineer of the Amtrak train had a restricting signal, meaning to proceed at 15 mph or be able to stop in half your sight distance so that it could pull up behind the freight. Instead the engineer accelerated to 40, came around the curve, and hit the freight.

I don't know much about railroads, but from what I am reading, it appears that there is no established nation wide standard for rail road signals.
Thats retarded! it would be like if you drive your car into another state, red means go and green means stop. I hope this is a wake-up call for NTSB to make a single standard.

In other words, it was a surveilence camera (sorry for spelling) :)

Sounds like a pain in the Ass. Bet the company officials have a field day Ops testing you guys. Be safe out there. Oh and Jeff4098 Im not sure if your post was directed at me but for the Record I am not a Hoghead I am a Conductor with fifteen years seniority. Not exactly a rookie. If it was directed at me you can kiss my ass if not Have a nice day.

That is exactly what the engineer thought, diverging approach but he forgot. This territory he was running on was NORAC rules not GCOR, and red over yellow is restricting, and NORAC restricting has a max speed of 15mph. You have to remember, Chicago has a bunch of different railroads, and we all run over each other's territory. The CORA book is over 500 pages long and covers all the signals and rules in brief for each railroad.

Can You Say "Puppy Mill Engineer" from Wilmington rush rush training center of knowledge? I wonder where his and her classmates are working?

Just curious do you work for the RR? cause I work for the BNSF out here in Washington state and red over yellow is a diverging approach aspect which basicaly means proceed at prescribed timetable speed through turnout and be prepared to stop at the next signal. Im not being a smartass, just curious if the signal system is different out there.

This was an unmanned camera owned by the railroad and monitored by the city

Note the person filming the crash here refuses to warn the Amtrak Engeneer. He should of phoned Amtrak and told them this was going to happen so the engeneer knew. This would likly prevent this crash.