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The equipment, or the way its operated. there was a train up in north dakota that derailed, a train that was carrying crude oil. it was a broken axle. the philadelphia crash may of 2015 was train handling, the guy was going around a curve too fast. a wide gauge on the track, broken rail, a train went over it. all those, amtrak, railroads are going to do is start where the train ended up and walk backwards to see where it left the track. its going to happen a half mile before and it finally crash...

Will cause a train to go on the ground, something wrong with the track, something wrong with the equipment, something wrong with the way the train is handled. train handling, think of frankfurt junction, may of 2005 in philadelphia. something wrong with the equipment, think of the train that derailed into the pass of an oil train in north or south dakota a couple of years ago. those are the kinds of things that will cause a train to go on the ground. what ntsb and the railroad, amtrak are going ...

>> whats the list include of scientific information that you will get, for example, the raw data as you call it? what is available to them besides telling them how fast it was going that will be -- they can get that almost instantaneously? >> it will tell them -- besides the speed it will tell them whats going on with the engine and that means how hard its pulling and things of that nature. passenger train is a lot easier to deal with than a freight train which might be over a mile long. its a l...

Better idea of what some of the possibilities are that theyll be looking for either in the positive or negative. for example, the track expert. >> the track expert, hes going to do a couple things. first of all, theyre going to -- everything theyre going to look at on site is going to be stuff that theyre going to deem perishable, things that because of clearing or trying to get people out of the cars and things like that, they might have to move cars. theyre going to try to get to things that m...

Human performance group which talk about fatigue training and maybe toxicology. of course the equipment and they will look at the brakes. the track, because i understand there were some deferred maintenance on the track. signal systems and i understand that the locomotive had a cab signal system telling the engineer what his speed should have been. of course emergency response and injury preve of those areas particularly operations, train handling and equipment braking, and indictly human perfor...

Phone. how much can we learn from the data recorders that have been taken from the scene? >> well, the recorders and there were two taken off. one from the control cab at the rear of the train and one from the locomotive at the head of the train and they will have identical parameters they will record. that includes as you mentioned, speed, braking pressure, another train handling parameters, am percentage and things like that to tell how hard the locomotive pulling, and how hard it was braking ...