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Speed the speed limit at that section of the track. at the curve, it was 50 miles an hour. the train was going 106 miles an hour. another thing they are telling us is this section of the track near philadelphia did not have positive train controls. that is an expensive piece of technology but mandated by congress to be placed on all rail lines in the united states by the end of 2015. it was not placed in this section of the track near philadelphia. what is positive train control? an automatic override system to warn the engineer if the train is too fast for a section of track. if the engineer ...

Brake application was applied, the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. >> as they head north from philadelphia, the rail lines are straight and have a speed limit of 80 miles an hour, but as they approach the frankford junction rail yards and one of the sharpest curve inside the northeast corridor the speed limit drops to just 50 miles per hour for trains. amtrak 188 left philadelphia at 9:10. at 9:21, it was hitting 106 miles per hour when the engineer suddenly hit the emergency brake too late. the engineer on that train was brandon bastion, his lawyer tells abc news he d...

The ntsb is looking at the signals and mechanisms involved. they are saying the key component is speed. they say the train was going twice the rate of speed it should have been going at that section of the track. at that curve, the limit was 50 miles an hour. another thing they are telling us this section of the track near philadelphia did not have positive train controls. that is an expensive piece of technology but mandated by congress to be placed on all rail lines in the united states by the end of 2015. it was not placed in this section of the track near philadelphia. what is positive tra...

The engineer was on his cell phone, he was texting. because he was on his cell phone texting, he missed that signal that was telling him there was another train on the track ahead and he should not proceed down that track. he missed the signal and that train he was driving, smashed on the freight train and 25 people were killed 25 people killed including the metro link engineer who was on his cell phone. 25 fatalities, a huge number of fatalities, right? more than 100 people injured badly enough to be taken to the hospital it was the worst rail incident in l.a. history, we know why it happened...

Because he was on his cell phone texting, he missed that signal that was telling him there was another train on the track ahead and he should not proceed down that track. he missed the signal, and that train he was driving smashed into the freight train and 25 people were killed, 25 people killed including the metro link engineer who was on his cell phone. 25 fatalities, a huge number of fatalities, right? more than 100 people injured badly enough to be taken to the hospital, it was the worst rail incident in l.a. history, we know why it happened. that was september 2008. by the following mont...