Amtrak train # 501 was part of a new high-speed service that just launched today, CBS affiliate @KIRO7Seattle reports http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5 pic.twitter.com/XKqbNYfyMW
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NEW: Photos shared by Washington state trooper shows some Amtrak train cars on highway, other dangling from bridge (courtesy Trooper Brooke Bova
@wspd1pio) http://cbsn.ws/2jcYyKM pic.twitter.com/cW2dDrGl7v
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“We've just heard from the Pierce County Sheriff's Spokesman Ed Troyer that there are fatalities” in the Amtrak derailment,
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“Those are fairly new train cars, they have been engineered to be crash resistant,”
@KrisVanCleave reports of Amtrak #501 that derailed in Washington state this morning http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5 pic.twitter.com/9z7E0hOFIkShow this thread -
70 people were on this Amtrak train when it derailed, CBS News Seattle affiliate
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Pierce County officials say “several cars on I-5 were struck by the derailed Amtrak train cars. Multiple motorists injured on the roadway. They say no fatalities reported amongst the motorists yet,”
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NEW: Several cars are stuck on an Interstate in Washington state after an Amtrak train derailed Monday morning. "Multiple motorists injured on roadway, no fatalities of motorists reported,"
@PierceSheriff says http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5 pic.twitter.com/EfgS9u5lzD
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"Once they've gotten a head count, that's when we're going to start to get some really solid information. Right now, we are in that stage of breaking news, where numbers are going to change a little bit here and there,"
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“This was a new high-speed route. The expectation was that it would shave about 10 minutes off of the train passengers' commute,"
@AMGreenCBS reports. "The derailment occurred in an area where there is a slight curve." http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5 pic.twitter.com/xTcDRQGAmaShow this thread -
PHOTOS: Images from the scene of Washington interstate where Amtrak train has derailed. A train car is seen dangling from overpass and some train parts are scattered on highway (Courtesy
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I suggest that you go back to local programming. You have devolved into endless speculation.
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The derailment going into a curve prompts similarities to the The excess speed Derailment in Philadelphia; if that is the case it’s tragic because the implementation of positive train control would’ve prevented the accident
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Unfortunately the lack of an inward facing camera will hamper the ability to tell what the engineer was doing at the time of the Derailment
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