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Don’t Allow Your Life to Derail Like Amtrak

Thursday, May 14, 2015 11:11
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Recently Amtrak train number 188 derailed as it attempted a turn going twice the allowed speed limit. The Northeast Regional Train had 238 passengers and five crew members aboard as it headed from Washington DC to New York. Needless to say the train never reached its destination because of the unfortunate derailment which occurred in Philadelphia.

This tragic turn of events not only injured dozens of people, but at least seven have died and an innumerable amount of people were inconvenienced. Further investigation of the derailment revealed that the train was moving at a speed of about 107 miles per hour. This was entirely too fast and a perfect recipe for the Amtrak train to derail. Famed R&B Singer India Arie said it best in the chorus of her song Slow Down:

Slow down, baby you’re moving too fast.
You got your hands in the air with your feet on the gas.
You’re about to wreck your future running from your past.
You need to slow down before you go down baby.

Amtrak did not derail because it was misaligned, the misalignment was a result of the speed the train was moving. Just like … click HERE to continue reading

 

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