[Scan-DC] possible train crash or derailment in Fairfax

[b_thom at juno.com]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:10:04 -0500 Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
writes:
> 
> "Train 97, headed for West Palm Beach with 712 passengers and 15 
> crew members, was a special train, not in standard service."

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:48:02 -0500 kra2829 at aol.com writes:
> 
> At 2155 hours on January 23 NRC (#929472) reported that at 2029 
> hours, Amtrak 97/23 Train went into an undesired emergency and the 
> lead engine derailed 

Hmmm. It has the number of a regularly scheduled Amtrak train. It must
have been running as Advance 97 or the second section of 97. I can go
over to the Yahoo! group to see what's going on.

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/vrfd/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vrfd at yahoogroups.com [mailto:vrfd at yahoogroups.com] 

> Sent: Sunday, 24 January, 2010 13:35
>
> You nailed it, Glenn. Here's the rest of the story, as told in
> today's Palm
> Beach Post. Curious that they came north last week (Thursday?) with
> a
> special symbol (P900-something) but returned with the Silver
> Meteor's symbol
> (P097).


Thanks for the updates.
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