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It's structurally sound. five to seven minutes later, the two amtrak cops came on took a couple pictures felt the inside of the window and let us continue. to me i thought even though i've never seen it in years. i assume that these things must be fairly routine if they would send us off that quickly. all very surreal, the mayor of philadelphia came out the next day and said there was no connection. my train was hit, a septa train was hit and then the amtrak train derails and crashes. >> i remember reading about the local commuter train hit by some sort of projectile and wondering if there was...

Deadly derailment. >> she said she heard the engineer talking to a septa engineer. she recalled that the septa engineer had reported to the train dispatcher that he had either been hit by a rock or shot at. she also believed that she heard her engineer say something about his train being struck by something. >> the ntsb says the train accelerated as it approached a sharp curve in the track. data from the train's video camera shows 65 seconds before the crash, the train was moving at 70 miles per hour. 22 seconds later, more than 80. then 90 before exceeding to more than 100 miles per hour the ...