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<h5 class="byline">MARIA PANARITIS, SUSAN SNYDER, AND MARTHA WOODALL,<span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS</span></i></h5>
<p>LAST UPDATED:<span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thursday, May 14, 2015, 1:08 AM<br />
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<p>One minute they were husbands and wives, students and professionals, lost in cellphone chatter, the glow of iPads, the rhythm of a passenger train charging through Philadelphia on a spring night at more than 100 m.p.h.</p>
<p>The next moment they were being hurled into overhead luggage racks, slammed into windows, even stripped of their shoes as Amtrak Train 188 flew off its tracks and came to a screaming, horrific, halt.</p>
<p>It was, according to survivors of the deadliest Northeast Corridor rail crash in a generation, a scene of such sudden destruction they could hardly believe they had witnessed it &#8211; let alone walked away.</p>
<p>All seven cars being tugged by a New York-bound locomotive flipped onto their sides or snapped to a severe tilt near I-95 as the train, roaring at twice the posted speed, blew a curve at Frankford Junction at 9:21 p.m. Tuesday.</p>
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<p>The 238 passengers had virtually no warning.</p>
<p>As one man who managed to climb out of Car No. 7 put it: &#8220;You saw and heard noise still creaking. You had people everywhere. You look over at the train and you can&#8217;t believe that the car three up from us is perpendicular to the track.&#8221;</p>
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NTSB releases “B Roll” of train crash scene; Inquirer full coverage of Train 188; Engineer knows nothing!
A side view of the Amtrak electric locomotive. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo via WTXF