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- From: x92ochs1@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Amtrak's reputation(was Amtrak Pere Marquette delayed)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.215933.7461@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:59:33 EST
- References: <1993Jan25.130338.7448@gw.wmich.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <1993Jan25.130338.7448@gw.wmich.edu>, x92ochs1@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- > Last night, Amtrak's Pere Marquette(#370) lost it's engine and was
- > stranded in Michigan City for nearly 5 hours until an engine could be
- > sent out to pull the train. This is the second time in less than a week
- > that this train has been delayed by faulty equipment. Last week an their
- > engine died in Hammond, IN and was delayed for several hours. Then the
- > morning after that, the replacement engine was damaged and the train derailed
- > by a flat-bed trailer on a truck in Gary near the steel mills.
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- > P370-24, as CSX designates it, arrived at St. Joseph MI at 12:53 am, rather
- > than 8:11 pm as it is supposed to.
- >
- > This, in addition to last month's wreck in Stevensville and the general
- trend to be behind schedule have taken a toll on Amtrak's reputation.
- After last month's wreck, many people said that they had taken their
- last train ride. These people have probably told their friends how
- unsafe trains are. But at least a train, when it derails, doesn't drop
- a mile down out of the sky like an airplane that has crashed or lost its
- engines(crashed as in into another aircraft.) The farthest you fall is
- maybe 12 feet and your chances of survival are greater.
-
- Jeff Ochs
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