west point wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:01 am
Second guilty person was Amtrak not activating ATC cab 60 speed at signal before Frankford going northbound. but it was active going south. Remember PRR had an overspeed crash there during WW-2
If a GG-1 could do it most certainly a Sprinter would!
Speaking of that, it's been said here and elsewhere that at one time, a cab signal drop was in place in the eastward direction as well, but at some point it was removed. Nobody seems to know when it was removed, whether it was in the PRR era, under PC control, or under Amtrak control after 1976.
Of course, ACSES now makes that question moot, and it would not have made a difference that fateful night, but I sure wonder when. Because I never knew a cab drop was in that direction at one time. It sure wasn't there when I was qualifying in the late 1990's.