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Investigators were still searching for data recorders on both trains. akin to little black boxes you hear as critical to the investigations when airplanes crash. here's what we do know about how this deadly crash happened. a switch on the track was lined and locked as they say in the railroad industry in the wrong direction. this switch locked with a padlock to send the amtrak passenger train off the main track, diverting it to a siding track, squarely into that parked freight train. and investigators now trying to understand the why. that will be a question they will need the help of csx to a...

Siding track and squarely into the freight train. now, ntsb investigators have to figure out why, why that switch was left locked in the wrong position when trains like amtrak train 91 travel along that path every day. this is a question that the csx corporation will have to try to help them answer. csx, the railroad group that owns, operates and maintains the stretch of track where this crash occurred, said they're responsible for the signalling, the switching and the dispatching in that area. csx offered up a statement with their condolences to the families of the two victims of this crash. ...

Diagram the fatal mistake a switch on the railroad track locked with a padlock in the wrong position. listen to his description. >> i'm talking about a rail switch that can actually switch how the track goes from here to here. for whatever reason that switch was as they say in the railroad industry lined and locked. key to this investigation is learning why that switch was lined that way. because the expeck trags of course is that the amtrak would be cleared and would be operating straight down like this. >> reporter: so the key question for investigators, why, why was that switch locked and l...