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Amtrak's Northeast Corridor Long Term Trends

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[quote user="MidlandMike"] [quote user="Sam1"] ... According to the FRA, from 1998 through 2006, there were 22 train accidents that could be attributed to bridge failure.  No one was killed and one person was injured.  No one has been killed in a train accident attributable to a bridge failure since 1957.  Considering that the Class I railroads owned and maintained over 61,000 bridges in 2006, whilst the Class II and III railroads owned and maintained more than 15,000 bridges, the accident rate attributable to bridge problems does not suggest that the nation’s railroad bridges are in disrepair.  The report does not mention Amtrak's bridges, other than to say that the investigators talked with Amtrak.  Moreover, I did not read the entire report; it is 71 pages long. [/quote] That the report does not mention Amtrak, leaves out the Amtrak bridge disaster near Mobile, Alabama, where several passengers died after a barge hit a bridge. [/quote] The GAO report only covered accidents covered by natural structural failure, i.e. wear and tear, design, etc. As you have noted, the bridge failure near Mobile was caused by a barge striking the bridge.  I was going to mention it parenthetically in my post, but decided to see if someone would raise the issue.
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