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Infrastructure, is it? >> that is correct. the northeast corridor tracks are very old. some of the infrastructure was built in the 1930s. it was renewed in the 1970s and early 1980s. so there is infrastructure work that needs to be done. but it does not appear that infrastructure problems played a role in this particular derailment. >> and, steven, a lot of people are looking to the train engineer you now for answers to a lot of questions. but how does amtrak screen their engineers before they start work? what sort of training, safety training do they go through? >> most of the time, amtrak hi...

Or more and that force becomes much greater. gravity is low enough and it's heavy enough up here, it will stay on the tracks. that's not the case back there. the center of gravity is different back here. the weight distribution is different and that's why some passenger say they felt the car sort of flying up off the tracks. we know that can happen because we saw it happen in spain when this train crash occurred. the train was supposed to be going 50 miles per hour. instead, it was going over a hundred. watch you who it slings those passenger cars off behind it and they pull the locomotive off...