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‘Titanic-like complacency’: Official blasts Amtrak for fatal 2017 train crash in Washington State

June 26, 2019 Administrator

By Gene Johnson, The Associated Press, Peninsula Daily News; June 26, 2019 SEATTLE — The National Transportation Safety Board has…

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Washington State Department Of Transportation to replace its Talgo railcars like those in the 2017 Amtrak crash near DuPont ‘as soon as possible’

May 23, 2019 Administrator

By Mike Lindblom, Staff Reporter; The Seattle Times; May 22, 2019 More than 50 Talgo railcars that have served the…

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National Transportation Safety Board ‘amazed at the amount of failure’ by agencies in fatal 2017 Amtrak derailment south of Tacoma, Washington

May 21, 2019 Administrator

By Mike Lindblom, Staff Reporter, Seattle Times; May 21, 2019 Washington state’s lightweight Talgo trains that carried 800,000 Amtrak Cascades…

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Posted in: Amtrak Filed under: Amtrak, Cascades, December 2017 high speed derailment, Derailment, DuPont, Engineer, Final hearing, Intercity, Lack of crew training, National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, Passenger Trains, Point Defiance Bypass, Positive Train Control, PTC, Rail Safety, Railcars plunged onto Interstate 5, Sound Transit, Talgo, Three Fatalities, Train Number 501, Transportation, Travel, Washington State

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