Excellent post-mortem at The Seattle Times:
‘Holy cow, so the train is actually on the road?’ The wreck of Amtrak 501
Rudi Wetzel was napping in his seat, his hat pulled over his eyes, when he awoke to what he thought was an explosion.
A retired Los Angeles police officer, the 81-year-old had boarded Amtrak 501 in Seattle earlier that morning. He was on his way back to Centralia after visiting his girlfriend in Kirkland.
Now he felt his body lift from the train seat, and then he was in the air, flying through darkness.
Excellent reading and, it follows frequent commenter Dick Park's most recent post:
It's always interesting to see how long the union can keep the engineer's name quiet.
Not a peep yet...
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