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2 Trains Hit by Projectiles Minutes Before Amtrak Derailment

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2 Trains Hit by Projectiles Minutes Before Amtrak Derailment

By Vince Lattanzio

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/2-Trains-Hit-by-Projectiles-Minutes-Before-Amtrak-Derailment-SEPTA-303820821.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_PHBrandCalvert texted his wife at 9:18 p.m., shortly after the window was hit, he said. The train arrived at 30th Street Station moments later and two Amtrak Police officers came onboard to inspect the window, he said. After a few minutes and a snap of photos, the train continued on to Washington.

A short time before the Acela was hit, at 9:05 p.m., a SEPTA Regional Rail train running northbound on adjacent tracks toward Trenton, New Jersey had the engineer’s window shattered by an unknown projectile, the transit authority confirmed. NBC10 previously reported this incident on Wednesday.

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Amtrak 188 derailed around 9:20 p.m. as it entered a curve at the Frankford Junction traveling in excess of 100 mph. The crash killed eight people and injured over 200

SEPTA/Madison Calvert

Photos of damage to a SEPTA regional rail train and an Amtrak Acela train. The trains were damaged on the same line Amtrak Regional 188 was traveling before it derailed.

Updated at 10:24 PM EDT on Friday, May 15, 2015

Minutes before Amtrak Regional 188’s violent derailment in darkness Tuesday, two other trains were hit by projectiles along the same line.

Amtrak Acela 2173 — heading to Washington, D.C. from New York — had a passenger window damaged around 9:15 p.m. as it traversed the southbound line toward Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station.

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Madison Calvert was sitting next to the left-side window that was hit. He was working on his laptop computer when he heard a loud smack.

“I’m like ‘Oh my God, my window’s shattered,’” he recalled. The impact left a large divot and cracks throughout the window, as seen in photos the 29-year-old took.

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