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This Week at Amtrak 2006-06-11

June 11th, 2006 wlindley Comments off

Volume 3, Number 25

  1. Amtrak has been naughty, again. The Chicago Sun-Times reported on May 29th the Hoosier State, train no. 318 from Chicago to Indianapolis had a gross passenger service failure.As the Sun-Times reported, the train’s engineer allegedly ran a red signal around 9 P.M., near Dolton, Indiana, a far suburb of Chicago. This would have put the train about 30-40 miles from its originating terminal in downtown Chicago. Running a red signal on a train is one of the worst and most serious safety infractions that can occur on any railroad, and is dealt with harshly by all company and regulatory parties concerned.

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