KINGSTON, R.I. — No injuries were reported after an Amtrak Northeast Regional train struck track equipment near Kingston on Friday night, according to news reports.
WJAR-TV reports Washington-Boston train No. 178, carrying about 200 passengers, struck the equipment about 11:20 p.m. The station’s website has a photograph of an Amfleet coach immediately behind ACS64 locomotive No. 645 with damage to its front end and a gash extending several feet across a door and down the car’s side.
Amtrak’s NEC Alerts Twitter feed indicated the train was stopped “due to equipment issues” as of 11:50 p.m. Friday night but reported the train back on the move by 1:43 a.m., operating approximately 2 hours, 20 minutes late. Amtrak’s website indicates the train arrived in Boston at 3:11 a.m., 2 hours, 56 minutes late.
Trains News Wire has asked Amtrak for further information on the incident.
Obviously a hoax. PTC is installed and will never allow this to happen.
PTC???
Odds are the equipment was on the wrong track.
Not to worry. PTC will keep this from happening.
To use a line from the movie COOL HAND LUKE “what we have here is a FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE”