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Couple of decades old. it could easily be installed without all the bells and whistles of positive train control. think of it as my house is on fire and i need to call the fire department, do i need the iphone 15 or can i pick up a landline and call? >> sandra: what can you tell us about the age of the train we are looking at and condition of the tracks on which it was traveling? >> let me say this. judging from the pictures i have seen, it's a fairly new locomotive. i can't tell the cars, the track was probably put their over 100 years ago by the southern pacific, however over time that track...

Heard about the coming around the corner. listening to a media briefing led by amtrak president richard anderson. jo what do we know? >> reporter: pretty big news out of this. tom from nbc news asked a question about positive train control, whether or not it was implemented, and there was a one-word answer, no. and the reason that that is interesting and that matters in this situation is ptc or positive train control here can prevent train collisions, prevent derailment caused by excessive speed. ptc cannot prevent accidents caused by excessive speed or train operator error. we're getting news...

There was talk about positive train control and i don't know if positive train control was in effect in this particular spot. >> remind people, john, what that is. >> people don't remember. >> positive train control, it came up in the amtrak derailment in philadelphia. we consider it an angel on our shoulders out there on the track and it's our backup and our safety net. in case you, for some reason, become displaced and you don't see the curve coming or you don't see the spot where you're supposed to be slowing down, the signals will be sent to the locomotive and this is just a raw form of ex...

Say 40. so that would have a huge difference on the investigation. with this many cars derailed. with this report there are additional cars on the ground upside down and mangled. one would expect a fair amount of speed on that train. you think it would be moving at a good clip. a higher rate of speed. the speed will be an issue. the guardrails and the warning and the track itself. who owns it and what the maintenance was and whether it had positive train control. if it was going 81 miles an hour and it's a 79 miles an hour track, people want to know why was the speed not regulated or the 2 mil...

Aerial view i could get a better idea of the dynamics of the derailment because that will indicate the speed of the train to some extent. >> sandra: marie harf, you seem to want to jump in with a question. >> marie: this reminds me a little bit of the 2015 derailment we saw around philadelphia, from what i've been looking at, amtrak had 11 safety recommendations given to them after that, it killed eight people, 200 were injured, it turned out it was engineer failure but the train didn't have positive train control, some of these systems if there is operator error they help prevent it. do you h...