Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150514:14:32:00
Miles per hour twice posted speed limit when it jumped rails in spain in 2013 79 people killed. speed to blame in the crash of the new york commuter train that killed four. unlike on airplanewise two pilots in the cockpit the train engineer is often alone in the cab aided by positive train control or ptc, an electronic system which can take control of the train if it is traveling too fast. sections of the northeast corridor from new haven, connecticut to boston and philadelphia to washington have ptc installed. not on the stretch of track where amtrak train 188 took a curve too quickly. >> we ...
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