The two remaining Amtrak Cascades Talgo Series 6 trainsets owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation, sidelined since the fatal December 2017 derailment of another one of the trainsets in DuPont, Wash., left storage in Washington today, en route to a scrap dealer in Southern California. WSDOT had removed the trainsets from service after the National Transportation Safety Board concluded the Talgo design played a part in the severity of the Dec. 18, 2017, accident that killed three passengers [see “Safety board takes aim at Talgo train set …,” Trains News Wire, May 22, 2019]. Talgo later filed a formal challenge to that conclusion [see “Talgo challenges NTSB finding …,” News Wire, Nov. 1, 2019].
Two other Cascades Series 6 trainsets owned by Amtrak were moved to the passenger railroad’s Beech Grove, Ind., shops for storage last summer [see “Digest: Amtrak Talgo trainsets moved …,” News Wire, Aug. 24, 2020].
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