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congressional limited train crash. it was the country's worst rail accident since 1918. but it wasn't the only crash on the new york-washington line. in 1996 50 years later and about 95 miles north of the philadelphia crash, an amtrak train derailed. it then sideswiped another train after crossing the 100-year-old portal bridge. 43 people were injured, though no one was killed. in this case the rails on the bridge were not returned to the right position after the bridge opened to allow a tug boat to pass. the deadly crash on tuesday night is only the latest on a rail line with a history of accidents that stretches over half a century. coming up was amtrak doomed to fail from its very outset? the rocky financial history of america's railroad. that's next. based on 6 different criteria, why did a panel of 11 automotive experts name the volkswagen golf motor trend's 2015 car of the year? we'll give you four good reasons.
and injured another 200 and it happened just steps away from another rail accident more than 70 years earlier. on september 6th of 1943, an even deadlier railroad crash took place in philadelphia less than a mile from tuesday's accident. at the time, the doncongressional limited train was the fastest on the pennsylvania railroad line. it traveled between washington, d.c. and new york city at the then unheard of speed of 80 miles per hour. on labor day 1943 541 people boarded the limited at washington's union station. many of them were soldiers on leave for the holiday from world war ii. minutes past 6:00 p.m. after passing the north philadelphia station on broad street the train's seventh car flung upward. that sent the other cars flying off the rails. the cause? one of the train's journal boxes, which house the axles, overheated. all told 79 people were killed and 117 wounded in the
i was informed that they are doing upheavals in their crew. they are beginning 12-hour days with shorter layoffs. that's something that in committee i want to look at. i wrote and asked about that. they said we're still talking with the unions. the unions told us that they wanted to begin with union station and go to these 12-hour days, to do essentially crew changes, which they believe would make the line more efficient. but obviously, i can't believe it will make it more safe. >> congresswoman, have those changes begun? have the workdays increased already? or is that happening in the future? >> some have already begun. they wanted to do the 12-hour days and the layoffs that would be shorter beginning with the union station hub. >> back to the geography politics for a minute. the ridership on average in republican districts i think is
what part of the line you're on. i wonder, that notwithstanding, did it feel like the train was going really fast? >> you know, i don't know that i can tell you the difference between going 70 miles an hour or 120 miles an hour in a a train car. but what i will say is that we went around that curve, it felt almost as if you were in a car that took a curve a little too fast and your body moves just a little too uncomfortably. everything happened so so quickly, that i doubt that there was any room to make up for this really tragic mistake. and hearing in retrospect now that the train was traveling twice the speed limit is really enraging. it's infuriating. and it's just shameful. especially hearing about the lives lost and the injuries that i saw last night. i'm thankful that my injuries