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Passengers along the northeast corridor between washington and boston it has become one of the busiest, most complex technically advanced rail systems in the world. engineering professor george bible says while traveling by train is largely safe passengers should be more concerned about the state of the tracks than speeding engineers. >> most derailments are caused by equipment error, rail problems are a common one. rails can fracture from metal fatigue or move around and shift or anything else that moves. common ones are wheels bearings and axles. coincidentally the site of tuesday's crash in...

With more than 11 million passengers traveling along the northeast corridor between washington and boston each year it has become one of the busiest, most complex, and technically advanced rail systems in the world. engineering professor george bibel says while traveling by train is largely safe passengers should be more concerned about the state of the tracks than speeding engineers. >> while most derailments are caused by equipment error, rail problems are a common one. the rails can fracture from metal fatigue or they can move around and shift or anything else that moves. common ones are wh...

Equipment failure. u.s. congressman, member of house that committee joins me now. congressman, thank you very much. this tragedy, four people dead including a member of the nbc family, "today" show audio engineer and three other people and their families, an accident that should not have happened whether equipment error, operator error, how do you explain 82 miles an hour going into that spuyten station. >> the engineer may have been asleep, lost his focus. we have to look at the brakes. first indication they seem to be okay. we have to wait for national transportation safety investigation boa...