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Good right? yeah. lactaid. the milk that doesn't mess with you. confusion and contradictions in the wake of that deadly amtrak crash in washington state that killed three people. officials now saying the stretch of track did not have positive train control. it's a system that automatically slows down and stops a speeding train. the ntsb says a different safety system was in place, one that
>> jon: fox news alert now. federal investigators in the deadly amtrak wreck wanted to know whether the engineer might have been distracted by a second person in his cab as the train hit the curve as more than twice the speed limit. we have details on this from dupont, washington another concern for investigators. >> the big question is here why amtrak launched the high speed service before activating speed control technology that might have prevented a derailment like we saw here monday. this technology is known as positive train control. it is able to stop or slow down a speeding train and a...
That's the technology that slows down trains and senses it's going too fast. it wasn't yet activated, even though the owner of the track has installed positive train control on that it very stretch. >> 501 was making its first run on a new route between seattle and portland when the train derailed and some cars tumbled on to the rush hour traffic on the interstate below. others were left dangling over the edge. we have more from the scene. >> reporter: on its very first day on its very first run, this amtrak train derailed. nearly every single passenger car came off the track on to interstate ...
Determination. another issue in my mind is, in the rail industry primarily in the freight industry, the issue of fatigue is a major issue in causing accidents and injuries. i would like for them to investigate this issue. it should not be an issue in the passenger service issue because the employees know when they are to go on duty, but it's something that should be looked at. i want to clarify something that the prior person stated positive train control will be on all railroads at the end of the year. the regulations mandate that the positive train control systwillt on only 30%. >> you will ...
About. the most important thing is that we are having this conversation again after having had the conversations around the wreck of 188 outside of philadelphia, outside of incidents like the lakmagantic train wreck in quebec, canada, a few years ago. in each of these cases, where are fundamental structural and policy driven, risky decisions that we need to take up. >> such as positive train control and the fact that now just 24% of passenger railroads use this technology? >> ptc is a great tool and i can tell you as a high speed locomotive engineer that we appreciate any kind of tools that ar...