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If there were issues of employee error. the issues were with the train itself. the black box and certainly they helped determine that. the speed is an issue possibly and the track possibly. defective. there may be wheel defects on the train. these are the issues that certainly will be at the forefront of the ntsb. the black box itself will give all the instrumentation of the train operations including the signals and the brake application and the speed, etc. they will have the basic information they need to make a determination if any of those issues were involved. i think that would be the

We'll be looking at those. we have a forward facing video camera that's in the head end of the locomotive. the front end of the train. we'll be looking at that. we will be -- the event recorders themselves can give you information about the speed of the train and any brake application and any throttle applications that the engineer could have made. horn bell it can give us a lot. that will be key to this investigation is a good download of those data which is being conducted and will be done this afternoon. we hope to be able to provide you with information as we get it. >> two last questions....

The tape revealed the train was traveling at 72 miles per hour and there was no brake application. whatever caused the crash, the engineer never saw it. investigators also discovered the signals on the track were green. >> the signals are controlled by a current that goes through the rail, and if the rail breaks, the signal will immediately turn red. so, the signal didn't turn red. >> the bridge was originally built in three sections. the southern section was a 165-foot steel truss bridge. the center section, a single 140-foot steel girder, was originally designed to pivot so river traffic cou...

Divers recovered the train's event recorder from the bayou, which is like an airline's flight data recorder. the tape revealed the train was traveling at 72 miles per hour and there was no brake application. whatever caused the crash, the engineer never saw it. investigators also discovered the signals on the track were green. >> the signals are controlled by a current that goes through the rail, and if the rail breaks, the signal will immediately turn red. so, the signal didn't turn red. >> the bridge was originally built in three sections. the southern section was a 165-foot steel truss brid...