Track Failure News Today

After a driver noticed a rail out of place on July 4th, Streetcar Authority announces a two-to-three-week repair of bridge and rails.

Failure or a track failure or a combination of both. one of the things theyre going to try to do is determine the point of derailment. thats a very important thing. >> im just told that president trump has tweeted so i will read that to you. the train accident that just occurred in dupont, washington shows more than ever why our soon to be submitted infrastructure plan must be approved quickly. $7 trillion spent in the middle east while our roads, bridges, tunnels, railways and more crumble. not...

Last on the old. i cannot tell that from this photograph. >> from the photograph, you know where this is, right? so what do we know about this route? >> well, the route -- the old route was along the waterfront. this is obviously away from the waterfront with an overpass over i-5. investigators are going to be trying to figure out whether there was a track failure or a failure on the train itself, of wheels and axles and so on. there could have been a misassignment on the bridge. there could hav...

>> of course they are. you saw the pictures of the cranes being brought in. there will be an ntsb person right there watching all those events unfold and actually, depending upon what happens, might actually stop the lifting or -- since theres to clear-cut person trapped there, if it would, it would change everything. if theyre just lifting the car, the ntsb folks will be there to watch that and to see what pieces and any obvious damage that may indicate track failure, for example. >> yeah. what...