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This goes to potential civil liability because as it stands right now, there's a $200 million cap on a single train disaster. so here we have eight folk who is have died countless, 180 other folk who is have been injured. $200 million is not going to come close to compensating these individuals. now if this track was owned by a private freight company such as union pacific or a company named csx, then the claimants could sue in addition to amtrak the private freight company and, guess what there's an agreement in place between a.m.mtrak and all these private freight companies where amtrak woul...

To determine how fast was the train going, when were the brakes applied, and they will take toxicology tests of the conductor. luke? >> adam reiss, thank you so much. those images certainly are horrific. the track just bent out of shape, the train cars on top of each other. you know how much those weigh. amtrak's popularity has been on the rise in recent years. ridership has increased by roughly 50% in the last 15 years. over 30 million passengers rode amtrak trains in 2014. meanwhile, more than 11.6 million people traveled aboard the acela and other amtrak trains on the heavily traveled north...