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End of the recording, the train s speed exceeded 100 miles an hour. they have done checks to the signals and controls and track from before the accident. they checked the mechanical inspection records up until the departure of the trip. officials say they found no anomalies in the reports. they say a vehicle drove over the section of the track for a visual check the day before the trip and found no anomalies. they checked the signals around the track. so far, they have found no anomalies. christine. brian, thank you for that. friends and colleagues of engineer brandon bostian are speaking out in his defense. xavier bishop worked with bostian as his flagman. bishop said he was consciousous. he says he never saw bostian take a drink or use a cell phone ....
tonight, amtrak service between new york and philadelphia remains suspended. amtrak says service will resume tomorrow between boston and new york and between philadelphia and washington. investigators say they still do not know exactly what happened between the time that train left philadelphia s 30th street station last night and the time it crashed just 10 minutes later. nbc news has confirmed the engineer driving that train last night was brandon bastion, someone who knows the engineer tells msnbc that he is a cheerful guy .has always been a fan of railroads. the person who knows brandon bostian declined to be identified with b but says he last saw bostian two weeks ago and they talked about trains because they re both fans. the person said, quote, the notion that he made it so to speak, is of no surprise to me made it driving trains end quote. ....
Bostian s facebook page says he s from memphis, tennessee, but now lives in new york city. the national transportation safety board says today the train was traveling at double the speed limit when the crash occurred killing seven people and injuring more than 200. just moments before the derailment, the train was placed the engineer into and this means that the engineer applied full emergency full emergency brake application. maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 miles per hour. when the engineer induced brake application, the train wag traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. three seconds later, when the data to the recorder is terminated, the train speed was 102 miles per hour. the philadelphia enquirer ....