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To what we might think of as in an airliner? >> congress -- what congress has done -- they set a throttle position by the engineer and they head in but theres no what they call positive train separation, thats the buzzword here. if the train is being operated out, you know unsafely the -- the positive train controls will intercede and stop the train and bring it -- congress has mandated it. its in the works. amtrak has close to it but i dont think it was in effect on this section of track where ...

They are very busy people. so they will have people on the scene now that were in the area but theyll be sending those team all the local responders are there. you know the police fire and their investigators as well. and so -- and the federal rail administration also out of washington, d.c. will be sending people to help in the investigation. and they are the folks, of course that try to encourage and try to get money available to these trains to these railroads, for things like the updates, th...

Heightened interest in positive train controls, high-tech systems using signals capable of detecting problems, slowing trains, even bringing them to a stop. congress mandated the systems by the end of 2015. all right. so, wolf, just last hour, when you were speaking to ntsb board member weener, he told me something that was not in the press meeting, that the train was going 60 miles per hour two minutes before the crash, also going 60 miles an hour before it approached that curve. that shows tha...