By David Schanoes, Contributing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; July 30, 2018
I thought I’d chance watching the video recording of NTSB’s July 10-11, 2018 Investigative Hearing: Managing Safety on Passenger Railroads.
The July 10 morning session of Managing Safety on Passenger Railroads centered on the Feb. 4, 2018 collision of Amtrak 91 with a standing CSX freight train at Cayce, S.C. The collision occurred in CTC territory where the signal system had been disabled in order to accommodate PTC upgrades. The freight crew, switching between a yard and a siding, across a main track, failed to restore the main track switch to the proper position before releasing its control of the block to the dispatcher. The freight crew effectively lined the Amtrak into the siding and head-on into the train they were building. The Amtrak locomotive engineer and conductor were killed.
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