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Title: Report: Commuter Train Hit by Projectile Just Before Amtrak Train Derailed
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... -before-amtrak-train-derailed/
Published: May 13, 2015
Author: Breitbart News
Post Date: 2015-05-13 13:28:40 by cranky
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Views: 1447
Comments: 3
A Philadelphia commuter train was hit by a projectile about 20 minutes before an Amtrak train derailed a few miles up the track. A spokeswoman for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority says there’s no indication that the incident is related to the derailment. SEPTA spokeswoman Jerri Williams says they don’t know what the projectile was. It broke the engineer’s window around 9:25 p.m. Tuesday near SEPTA’s North Philadelphia station. No injuries were reported. Williams says the Trenton-bound commuter train was stopped and the incident was being investigated when the Amtrak derailment happened about 3 1/2 miles away. Williams says Amtrak dispatches SEPTA’s Trenton line and was aware of the incident. Six people were killed and dozens more were injured in Tuesday night’s Amtrak derailment.
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
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There were reports of smoke in the passenger cars. It could be electrical discharge after the train derailed and the thrid rail arcing?
I don't know. Quite the coincidence though that it happened so close to the derailment, though.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
It could be rocks kicked up by trains - happens a lot. Too early to tell. I don't think it was like bomb like we see in WW2 war movies.
#2. To: Pericles (#1)
It could be electrical discharge after the train derailed and the thrid rail arcing?
#3. To: cranky (#2)
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