XPost: sac.politics, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   XPost: alt.politics.homosexuality   
      
   NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — More than 100 people were hurt Wednesday   
   when a Long Island Rail Road train hit a bumping block at the   
   end of a track at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn.   
      
   The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to   
   investigate the incident, which happened around 8:15 a.m.   
   Wednesday as Train No. 2817 from Far Rockaway was pulling into   
   the terminal on Track 6.   
      
   The NTSB team arrived in New York City by 6 p.m. and began   
   examining the scene, according to NTSB investigator Jim   
   Southworth.   
      
   Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Tom Prendergast   
   said the train went up and over the bumping block. It then   
   crashed into an employee area on the platform.   
      
   Fire officials also said a piece of the rail pierced the bottom   
   of the train.   
      
   “Obviously, the train is supposed to stop short of the bumping   
   block,” Prednergast said. “It did not do that, so it’s one of   
   things we will look at as part of investigation.”   
      
   Transit officials said the lead wheel assembly and one other   
   axle derailed as a result of the impact.   
      
   The maximum speed permitted in the area just ahead of the   
   bumping block that the train hit is limited to 5 mph, Southworth   
   said.   
      
   Following the crash, the front train car was left with broken   
   windows and a bent metal door, while elsewhere in the terminal,   
   the bumping block was destroyed and a room for employees at the   
   end of the track was crushed, CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported.   
      
   Southworth said it is too early to determine whether to call the   
   damage “significant.”   
      
   Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the train was moving slowly and added   
   that it “wasn’t really a derailment.”   
      
   “The train hit the bumping block and when it hit the bumping   
   block, the bumping block basically knocked it off the tracks,”   
   he said.   
      
   A bumper at the end of the line is supposed to stay untouched,   
   and the train is supposed to stop well before it.   
      
   The governor said authorities don’t yet know why the engineer   
   failed to stop.   
      
   “What happened with the operator, we don’t know and obviously   
   there will be an investigation to find out exactly what happened   
   and why the operator didn’t stop the train before it hit the   
   bumping block,” he said.   
      
   http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/01/04/lirr-train-derailment-   
   atlantic-terminal/   
      
   --- SoupGate/W32 v1.03   
    * Origin: LiveWire BBS -=*=- UseNet FTN Gateway (1:2320/1)