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Amtrak Train 94
Amtrak train 94 "The Colonial" departed from Washington's Union station at 12:30 pm heading to Boston's south station. The next stop of train 94 is Wilmington,Delaware. How ever it will never make it to Wilmington,Delaware.
Engineers
The engineer of train 94 was 35 year old Jerome Evans
The train
The train consists of 2 Aem-7 electric locomotives numbered 900 and 903 and 12 passenger cars full of people coming home from the holidays and students getting ready for the second semester of school.
At bayview yard three conrail GE-B36-7 locomotives were heading east to enola yard near Harrisburg,PA with no freight cars. The lead unit #5044 had its cab signal warning alarm silents with duct tape. Also one of the light bulbs from the PRR style cab signals was removed and if that wasn't enough the crew was smoking weed. The brakeman Eward Cromwell was also smoking weed and failed to call out signals
When Amtrak train 94 approached the gunpowder interlocking near Chase,Maryland on the main line. The three conrail freight locomotives were north on the adjacent track that merge together on a bridge. When the stop signal came up they were going to fast to stop and over shot the signal. The conrails were sitting on the mainline right in front of the Amtrak train. The Amtrak train was going 125 MPH and when the Amtrak train saw the three conrails Jerome Evans applied the emergency brake but it was too late. The Amtrak train smashed into the conrails.
The aftermath
After the crash much was to follow. The driver of the Amtrak train Jerome Evans was instantly killed in the crash. The drivers of the conrails denied the fact that they were smoking weed but the drug tests showed that they were. Ricky gates the driver of the conrails was charged with manslaughter by locomotive and sent to 5 years in prison and 1 year probation. Cromwell the brakeman of the conrails suffered a broken leg. At the end a total of 16 people were killed.