NTSB
Railroad Accident Report
Appendix B: Transcript of Radio Transmissions
| SOURCE | TIME | DURATION (seconds) |
TRANSMISSION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Train 769 | 21:13:11 | 9 | Something happened to the window. It looks like a rock. Train 769 Amtrak CTEC. Over. |
| Dispatcher | 21:13:32 | 3 | Track CETC 6 to 769 |
| Train 769 | 21:13:36 | 35 | 769, coming out of Mantua, right at, uh, almost at the Diamond Street under grade bridge. Something hit our windshield. I don't know if somebody threw something, or somebody – but our windshield is shattered. I saw somebody by the side of the rail, but they had a light on. They had on a light on dark clothes. I couldn't see what they looked like, but the windshield from this train is shattered. Over. |
| Dispatcher | 21:14:14 | 13 | All right. Somebody either threw something or – all right. Um. Diamond Street under bridge, under bridge. Bridge. Uh, and you're all right? Over. |
| Train 769 | 21:14:28 | 31
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So far, everything – I mean – I just got glass in my face. I saw a trespasser by the freight tracks. I blew the horn. It had a light; they put the light out, and that's when it happened. It's about – I dumped the train about six cat poles from where it happened. Over. |
| Dispatcher | 21:14:35 | 2 | You said you got glass on your face. Over. |
| Dispatcher | 21:15:01 | 5 | All right. Roger. So you dumped the train? And you're all intact and on the rail, correct? Over. |
| Train 769 | 21:15:07 | 14 | We're on the rail, and, like I said, the windshield is shattered. Something hit it. I don't know what it was. I've seen people throw rocks here before. I don't know if it was a rock, but this windshield is shattered. |
| Dispatcher | 21:15:22 | 8 | All right. Roger. And, um – do you have like an exact milepost where that dump at Diamond Street Bridge is? Over. |
| Dispatcher | 21:15:36 | 3 | Where you stopped right now, 769? Over. |
| Train 769 | 21:15:54 | 6 | On the cat 4-pole where I'm stopped. |
| Train 188 | 21:16:07 | 6 | Amtrak 188 as SEPTA 769, hot rail, hot rail. Number 2 rail coming. Over. |
| Dispatcher | 21:16:17 | 4 | CETC 6, 769, what's your exact location there? |
| Train 769 | 21:16:37 | 10 | I'm over on top of 22nd and Diamond. Right. Over. Diamond Street, around 22nd. milepost 86. It's milepost 86. |
| Dispatcher | 21:16:47 | 7 | All right, Milepost 86. All right. So, the front windshield is completely shattered. Um, you're all right? Correct? Over. |
| Train 769 | 21:16:57 | 12 | Kind of dinged… because there's glass all in my face. |
| Dispatcher | 21:17:00 | 3 | Do you need any medical attention or anything? Over. |
