Rhetoric about crumbling infrastructure aside, the train crash in Washington happened on a new line which literally opened this morning. ...or maybe not. The "new line" is just an existing freight line which connects Tacoma and Olympia a bit faster than the older route...
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As an aside, it's ALWAYS dangerous to run a train faster than a given bit of track will allow (that's what caused the Amagasaki disaster in 2005!), but the pearl-clutching NIMBYs who fret that 79mph is too fast for a train to run need to get a grip
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The whole section was improved. The Sounder runs to Lacey, so either Sound Transit contributed on their share of the ROW or they just wanted to note on the map that Sounder track was being upgraded too.
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Yes, at the extreme southern end. Entering the s-curve where the cutoff crosses I-5 before merging into the main line.
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