Catch the latest car reviews, auto show coverage, racing stats, interviews and more from the editors at Road & Track. Watch Earthfall Tube Free. This is the 1988 Laurel Twincam 24V Turbo Medalist CLUB-L, which means it’s a top-of-the-line C33 Laurel, and I’m fairly sure it also means that it has Nissan’s. Directed by Justin Lin. With Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster. Brian O'Conner, back working for the FBI in Los Angeles, teams up with. On the morning of December 1, 2013, a Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line passenger train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

December 2. 01. 3 Spuyten Duyvil derailment. This article is about the passenger train that derailed at Spuyten Duyvil in December 2. For the freight train that derailed nearby in July of the same year, see July 2. Spuyten Duyvil derailment. On the morning of December 1, 2. Metro- North Railroad. Hudson Line passenger train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

Four of about 1. 15 passengers were killed and another 6. Showtime Full Check Point Online Free on this page. It was the deadliest train accident within New York City since a 1.

Manhattan,[2] and the first accident in Metro- North's history to result in passenger fatalities.[3]Early investigations found that the train had gone into the curve where it derailed at almost three times the posted speed limit. The engineer, William Rockefeller, later admitted that before reaching the curve he had gone into a "daze", a sort of highway hypnosis. The leader of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) team investigating said it was likely that the accident would have been prevented had positive train control (PTC) been installed. A prior federal mandate requires installation of the system by 2. Due to a number of other recent accidents involving Metro- North trains and tracks, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) demanded improved safety measures, which Metro- North began implementing within a week of the accident. In late 2. 01. 4, almost a year after the accident, the NTSB released its final report on the accident. After reiterating its earlier conclusion that PTC would have prevented the accident entirely, it found the most direct cause was Rockefeller's inattention as the train entered the curve.

There were other contributing factors. A medical examination following the accident diagnosed sleep apnea, which had hampered his ability to fully adjust his sleep patterns to the morning shift which he had begun working two weeks earlier. The report faulted both Metro- North for not screening its employees in sensitive positions for sleep disorders, and the FRA for not requiring railroads do such screening.[1]Background[edit]The train involved in the accident was the second southbound Hudson Line train of the day, leaving Poughkeepsie, the line's northern terminus, at its scheduled departure time of 5: 5. EST.[4] It was powered by a GE P3. AC- DMlocomotive,[5] capable of running on either diesel fuel or electricity from a third rail.

Since Metro- North uses push- pull trains, it was situated at the northern, or rear, end of the train to minimize noise on the underground platforms at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, its final destination,[6] where it was scheduled to arrive at 7: 4. It carried about 1. The lead train car involved in the derailment, pictured in 2. Engineer William Rockefeller, a 1. Metro- North veteran who had started as a clerk in the stationmaster's office at Grand Central and then spent 1. Bombardier- made Shoreliner passenger coaches,[5] in a mix of Metro- North and Connecticut Department of Transportation livery,[note 1] two of which were closed off and used only for deadheading by employees.[7] He had recently begun working the morning shift after working afternoons, a change he later told investigators he had made reluctantly,[8] requiring that he leave his home in Germantown, approximately 2. Poughkeepsie, at 3: 3.

To make sure he had adequate rest before his shift, he had gone to bed at 8: 3. He had arrived at work on time after a 4. Another veteran employee, Michael Hermann, who in his limited time working with Rockefeller had praised the engineer's "very smooth" train handling to other Metro- North employees,[1. Poughkeepsie was Maria Herbert, with whom he regularly worked.[1. Once underway in predawn darkness that gradually lightened to full daylight,[1. Amtrak for its Empire Service trains.

From Poughkeepsie it continued through the mid- and lower Hudson Valley, often right next to the river. Under electromotor diesel power, it made all six of its scheduled stops in the upper, non- electrified portion of the Hudson Line in Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester counties without incident. After Croton- Harmon, the northern end of the line's electrification, where it picked up another assistant conductor, Chris Kelly, it was held up briefly.[1. The next stop was Ossining, where it became an express, continuing under diesel power.[note 2] Between Ossining and the last stop, Tarrytown,[4] Hermann and Herbert swept toward the center of the train, where they met briefly. After Tarrytown, with the train running only a minute behind schedule,[1. They were positioning themselves for where Metro- North's rules required them to be, so Herbert could join Rockefeller in the cab and call out signals after the last stop, Harlem–1. Street. Hermann, in the rear deadhead car with what he estimated to be six other employees, including Kelly, who he had instructed to do so as the train's light passenger load did not require a third conductor, began doing his paperwork for the trip and preparing for his next.[1.

The train continued south over the next 1. Yonkers, where a permanent speed restriction of 5.

Ludlow due to construction.[1. South of that station the train entered the Bronx. About 1. 5 miles (2. Riverdale station, Rockefeller should have begun to slow the train down in anticipation of the curve[1. Spuyten Duyvil station, below the Henry Hudson Bridge where the Harlem River Ship Canal flows into the Hudson across from the northern tip of Manhattan Island.

Instead, he later said: I [don]'t know how to explain it .. I was dazed, you know, looking straight ahead, almost like mesmerized. And I don't know if anybody's ever experienced like driving a long period of time in a car and staring at the taillights in front of them, and you get almost like that hypnotic feeling staring straight ahead .. I was just staring straight ahead .. I was [feeling].[1. It was interrupted when, he felt, "something wasn't right with [the train]."[1. Linda Smith, of Newburgh, who had boarded the train at Beacon with her sister Donna to see a choral performance at Lincoln Center, recalled that although she, too, was not fully awake, something seemed wrong.

It was bumpy and just seemed really at that point I was aware of going very fast."[1. In the cab, Rockefeller initiated an emergency application of the brakes in an attempt to slow the train down. But it was already taking the curve.[1. Accident[edit]. Map of derailment site, with cars shown in red. At 7: 1. 9 a. m. the train derailed 1.