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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 16, 2018
Hearing on train derailment zeroes in on curves
Federal probe
of fatal crash
near Tacoma
By ERICKA CRUZ
GUEVARRA
Oregon Public Broadcasting
The engineer operating
the doomed Amtrak 501 train
traveling from Seattle to Port-
land last December told inves-
tigators the train had a differ-
ent control panel and displays
than what he was used to.
The morning of the trip,
the engineer planned to get up
front, touch the dials and nobs
to refamiliarize himself with
the train.
From the time he sat down
in the seat to the time he
moved the throttle to pull out
of the station, he had just 60
seconds to review the controls
before it was time to leave.
That train would eventu-
ally drive off a 30 mph curve
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
An Amtrak train derailed south of Tacoma in December.
at 80 mph south of Tacoma,
spilling onto the interstate
below, killing three people
and injuring several dozens
more.
Victims aboard the train
and on the highway have
filed at least a dozen lawsuits
against Amtrak as a result.
But beyond questions
about the engineer’s qualifica-
tions, National Transportation
Safety Board officials raised
concerns at an investigative
hearing last week about how
the problematic curve in the
new Point Defiance bypass
route fits into the larger narra-
tive of derailments caused by
dangerous curves.
Safety board officials were
met with silence by a room
full of agency officials respon-
sible for the bypass where the
derailment took place. Offi-
cials from Amtrak, Sound
Transit, the Federal Railroad
Administration and the Wash-
ington Department of Trans-
portation could not answer a
question about whose respon-
sibility it was to mitigate
problems with the curve that
required trains traveling 80
mph to slow to 30 mph.
NTSB chairman Robert
Zumwalt pointed to the 2015
Amtrak derailment in Phila-
delphia, another incident in
1990 at Boston’s Back Bay
station and yet another near
the Spuyten Duyvil station in
New York City in 2013. Each
of those incidents included
dangerous curves.
“You would think that
curves would be very much
on the radar so to speak of a
railroad these days,” Zumwalt
said. “And so I’d love to see
what you did to assess the risk
associated with this.”
DEATH
Jammie Rose “Shrub” Foley
Warrenton
Sept. 12, 1980 — July 5, 2018
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
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Brookings
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Klamath Falls
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Lakeview
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Ashland
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Tonight's Sky: To Hercules's lower right is the con-
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63/91
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Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 5:41 a.m.
Moonrise today ......................... 10:08 a.m.
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Normal month to date ....................... 0.61"
Year to date .................................... 35.69"
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Jammie Rose “Shrub” Foley passed away with her family and friends.
peacefully July 5 at her home in Warrenton with
She is survived by her dad, Richard Har-
ris-Davis, of Warrenton, Oregon; her sister,
family and friends present.
Jammie was born in Yuba City, California, Leisa Kiminki and Bryan Kiminki, of Warren-
ton, Oregon; nephew, Christopher
and raised by her loving parents, Vada
Shain, of Warrenton, Oregon; niece,
Foley and Richard Harris-Davis.
Ashley Antonio-Ramon and Juven-
She lived with her family in Grass
tino Antonio-Ramon, of Durant,
Valley, California, before moving to
Oklahoma; nephew, Brian Snow,
Astoria, Oregon. She graduated from
of Enid, Oklahoma; great-neph-
Astoria High School in 1999.
ews, Kyler Antonio-Ramon, Mat-
She is preceded in death by her
teo Antonio-Ramon and Issac Anto-
mother, Vada Foley, and by her grand-
parents, Howard and Geraldine Shain.
nio-Ramon; uncle, James Shain; aunt,
Jammie was loved by all, and a
Kathy Shain; cousins, Erik Shain and
one of a kind. She had a contagious
Ana Eyre; uncle, Donald Shain; aunt,
Jammie Foley
Peggy Shain; and cousins, Ben, Jona-
laugh and a smile that could light up
than and Nathan Shain, and Rebecca
the room. She had a generous heart,
Young.
and when she loved, she loved with
There will be a celebration of life on Sunday,
everything inside her. Jammie was the type of
person that no matter what time of day or night July 29, from 1 to 3 p.m., at the Warrenton Com-
munity Center.
you were in need, she was there.
Contributions for the memorial can be made
She loved watching football with her dad,
and was a huge Oakland Raiders and Univer- at Wauna Federal Credit Union, account No.
sity of Oregon Ducks fan. Jammie had a passion 155769.
If any family or friends have any pictures,
for sports and loved playing softball, basketball,
soccer and volleyball. She loved spending time please email them to foley.jammie@gmail.com
ON THE RECORD
Assault
• At 4:36 p.m. Saturday, Vincent A. Debel-
lis, 40, of Sherwood, was arrested by Sea-
side police on the 2360 block of Roosevelt
Drive and charged with fourth-degree assault
and strangulation. Debellis allegedly gave a
woman a black eye, held her down by her neck
and choked her during a domestic dispute.
DUII
• At 2:16 a.m. Saturday, Justin T. Peter-
son 35, of Hammond, was arrested by Sea-
side police on the 1200 block of G Street and
charged with driving under the influence of
intoxicants.
CORRECTION
Address incorrect — The new location of Old Things and Objects is 1144 Commercial St.,
Astoria. A page 9 story in Thursday’s Coast Weekend incorrectly listed the old address, 1015 Com-
mercial St.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Ecola Creek Watershed Com-
mittee, 4:30 p.m., City Hall, 163 E.
Gower St., Cannon Beach.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City
Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
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Port of Astoria Commission,
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Astoria Historic Landmarks
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1095 Duane St.
Sunset Empire Park and Rec-
reation District, 5:15 p.m., Bob
Chisholm Community Center,
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Lewis & Clark Fire Department
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34571 U.S. Highway 101 Business.
Shoreline Sanitary District
Board, 7 p.m., Gearhart Hertig
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Warrenton.
Seaside Planning Commission,
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989 Broadway.
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ular that will be helped. And
that one is at (milepost) 19.8.”
Michael
DeCataldo,
Amtrak’s vice president of
operations, said Amtrak has
since strengthened the qual-
ifications required for train
operators.
Qualifications for operat-
ing on certain train routes will
depend on the difficulty of the
route. Locomotive engineers
will be required to do a mini-
mum of four round trips over
an entire route before they
can qualify to operate on the
route.
The engineer operating
the Amtrak 501 train had
operated just one round trip
over the new territory, tell-
ing the qualifying conductor
that the Dec. 18 trip was “a
learning experience for him,”
according to investigative
documents.
“Looking back, we have
seen gaps in our qualification
process and we will address
those,” DeCataldo said.
OBITUARIES
July 15, 2018
WESTERHOLM, Shannon Lee, 42, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton
Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
TONIGHT
The curve near Tacoma, at
around milepost 19 on the new
bypass, has since been identi-
fied by the agency responsi-
ble for reviewing designs for
the bypass as the one curve
in the route that would par-
ticularly benefit from an auto-
matic braking technology
known as Positive Train Con-
trol, or PTC. The technol-
ogy is meant to slow or stop
speeding trains automatically.
The NTSB has advocated
for the technology for years,
with much resistance from
railroads and freight compa-
nies that complained about
the complex nature of the
undertaking.
Congress pushed back a
federal deadline requiring
the installation of PTC on
all Class I railroads to this
December.
“Positive Train Control
will help everywhere,” said
Martin Young, program man-
ager with Sound Transit. “But
there was one curve in partic-
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