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107 victims of 2005 fatal train derailment in Hyogo remembered Today 04:01 pm JST Today | 04:04 pm JST AMAGASAKI, Hyogo West Japan Railway Co (JR West) officials on Sunday placed flowers at a memorial site for 107 victims of a train derailment in 2005 in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Since the accident, a memorial service has been held each year, attended by relatives of victims and JR West officials. But due to the coronavirus, no service was held last year and again this year. JR West President Kazuaki Hasegawa placed flowers at the site and observed a minute of silence at...

On an acela train last night, this accident would not have happened because there is automatic train stop that is part of the acela system. so it is possible to do this even though we don't have positive train control implemented nationwide. and frankly, i don't understand why we haven't implemented positive train stop on the northeast corridor. we can do it. >> professor, let me ask you about that the automatic train stop. how is it to put in trains and trains that don't have it as in this one? >> well there's unexpected problems. when they passed the law, there were nine systems under test t...

Rules. the asella train has something called positive train control, or automatic train stop. so that speed is monitored, and if the engineer for whatever reason, is exceeding the speed, the train will automatically stop. you've got an amtrak train in this accident that apparently did not have that feature. so it is possible through technology to monitor speed. we will know more once we get the read out of the black box. but from my perspective, that technology ought to be on every train in the northeast corridor. >> so this was a regional train. that technology to monitor speed was not on the...