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Federal investigators renewed their recommendation that major freight railroads equip every locomotive with the kind of autonomous sensors that could have caught the track flaws that caused a fatal 2021 Amtrak derailment in northern Montana. The NTSB report laid blame in part on BNSF railroad, which owns the tracks, and “a shortcoming in its safety culture.”

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Rocking back and forth and tuns of noise and then we came to a stop and really it was -- we didnt know what was going on. >> reporter: amtrak now has an incident response team on the ground to help out with this ntsb investigation, which is just getting started. a lot of factors here. speed will be one of the big factors that investigators will look at, whether or not this train was under a speed restriction on this section of track. the entire empire builder line, the entire trip, takes about 4...

And she detailed that weather is another issue that investigators will be looking for. from those images it didnt appear that there was severe weather in the area. do we know anything about what it was like when the train derailed? >> a beautiful day, about 80 degrees out. typically these issues with derailments because of heat happen on really, really hot days. that doesnt seem to be an issue here and you can see in the images, its a beautiful, big sky montana day there. it doesnt seem like wea...

The train is going to slow down coming into the station. one of the things i was noting was whether you go slower when youre in a city right? if youre on a part of track thats running through a crowded residential neighborhood than if youre sort of out in the middle of nowhere and on a big straightaway. >> yeah it can change based on some of those factors. a lot of it has to do with track geometry, whether theres a curve, whether the curve is super elevated whether or not theres crossings in the...

>> so take me through the basics of how safety works in terms of speed. the train is going to slow down coming into the station. one of the things i was noting was whether you go slower when youre in a city, right? if youre on a part of track thats running through a crowded residential neighborhood than if youre sort of out in the middle of nowhere and on a big straightaway. >> yeah, it can change based on some of those factors. a lot of it has to do with track geometry, whether or not theres a ...