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It a positive train control system. that type of system it is designed to enforce the civil speed to keep the train below its maximum speed. and so we have called for positive train control for many, many years. congress has mandated that it be installed by the end of this year. so we are very keen on positive train control. based on what we know right now we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred. >> had the system been install...

Is put in place is because the ntb know which trains are using that track and they know where to stay. then it was going twice as fast, over twice as fast but simply unexpected. >> theres a lot of talk, if positive train control had been in operation here, this crash may not have happened. but even without that safety system in place, wouldnt there have been warnings on the plane, the alarms ringing that it was traveling too fast? >> well, there wouldnt have been an internal alarm on that. but w...

About 60 miles an hour. here you would have needed 10 or 15. so here positive train control would have prevented this accident i think without a doubt. >> all right. mary schiavo, thank you very much. and for you at home why am i hammering this point? why are we doing this? because politics is poisoning it right now. and we dont want this to happen again. and we certainly includes the loved ones the families of seven people who lost their lives in this train crash. we know there are still victim...

Passenger line is -- youre putting one person on an island and expecting perfect behavior from that person and thats your safety system. without a backup based on the technology of positive train control or the a least another set of eyes you can predict these accidents. this is exactly the same thing that happened in chadsworth california back in 2006 september. one person stuck on an island required to behave perfectly. and any mistake is fatal for everybody on that train. >> and what was the ...

Regardless of what the cause of take acceleration was. so this is something that had not been implemented or at least installed on this part of the track. officials at this point, though continue their investigation here. they are looking for some key pieces of evidence and more importantly still looking for perhaps some of those that have not yet been identified. >> all right. thanks so much. lets talk more about that safety technology. sgerpt experts say that may have prevented this tragedy. t...

Derailment up in the bronx and it i was situation -- it was a situation where a train was going too fast and it derailed and claimed four lives and there is a commonality there and i mention that because positive train control will prevent that accident and that is why the ntsb is investigated in it and the congress has mandated it. >> and mandated it for the end of the year and there are some pushing for the extension of 2020. >> there are various bills out there, until 2017, 18, 2020. >> it wi...

About, the engineer possibly facing criminal charges, id say -- thats a criminal issue. we want to find out what happened so we can learn from it and keep it happening again. >> you were very strong today about positive train control. i think it surprised people a little bit. i was talking to mayor nutter about that, why do you feel so strongly about it, why do you think its applicable in this case? >> im strong about it, because we believe that train control will prevent accidents like the one ...

Train control, which is an expensive, necessary new system for train control both freight and passenger across the country. i just want to go back to a word you threw out, fraud and corruption thats not what ive heard about amtraks operations in the last few years. ive been a senator five years. and as ive served on the appropriations committee the last two years, we havent had hearings in which the idea somehow amtrak is a massive fraud and corruption has been incredibly advanced or proven. the...

No signals, trains relied on their schedule, their schedule told them where they should be. if the schedule said, you werent 130ezed to be there, the train that was supposed to be there just assumed you werent. >> now we have signals, and those signals help -- its a big improvement, and then, of course, were evolving into positive train control, where we want trains to talk to one another. we want chains to talk to the track. >> im glad you brought that up. the ntsb, if we had train control, as ...

Train control. amtrak calls it asis. ptc is a gps based system so it knows where the train is and what the anything nalls are signaling. >> and if it was present, it could automatically slow the train down. >> absolutely. it would prevent derailments due to overspeed. >> and we know about how it works with train crashes, but how do you go about -- i know your investigators will be on-site here but the investigation goes on longer than that. >> and we are on scene to collect the perishable eviden...