Page 11 - Train Engineer News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Miles per hour zone. that's how fast the amtrak train was going when the derailment happened. investigators trying to figure out if excessive speed, or something else, like maybe faulty brakes or something else or human error, what really was the cause behind the crash. the philadelphia mayor, michael nutter, he thinks the train engineer is at least partly to blame. >> clearly he was reckless and irresponsible in his actions. i don't know what was going on with him. i don't know what was going on in the cab but there's really no excuse that could be offered literally unless he had a heart atta...

In the u.s. would have to get just slightly more modern not like, you know hydrogen powered cars and jet packs and futuristically hypermodern stuff, just some basic systematic safety upgrades that would take advantage of the fact that we are now a society that has things like computing machines and gps. this is not the most high-tech stuff. what they mandated for the u.s. rail system is something called positive train control. a very basic avoidance system that reduces stupid operator error or a train conductor having a heart attack at the engine. it reduces the chance that something unfortuna...

Of the photo and investigation. his attorney said a head injury may have erased vital clues. he doesn't remember anything. families in limbo. frantically searching for loved ones that have disappeared since the crash. let's start with the investigation and latest insights from the attorney representing that train engineer. krmpbs s cnn's live. >> reporter: that's right. the man that could potentially provide vital clues as to why the train was traveling more than double the speed limit that tragic night, he says he does not remember what happened. 32-year-old brandon bastion amtrak engineer ...

If it seems like something is wrong, if the train seems to have not noticed a signal or if the train is speeding, right? if the train engineer doesn't respond to that signal, positive train control can override the human. override that locomotive engineer and automatically slow the train down or stop the train by remote control. this sort of system does require equipment upgrades to trains, it requires putting a lot of basic train infrastructure on the grid it requires some gps technology. but, yeah, this is not like learning to live on mars, right? this is basic kind of atari level computeriz...

The case of the metro north crash of 2013, and at least preliminarily, it appears that the cause was the same. it appears that what caused the derailment was the train traveling at a very high rate of speed into a sharp curve. we do not yet know why that happened last night in philadelphia in this derailment that claimed seven lives already and may have claimed more. the ntsb determined that the aren't train engineer was speeding at more than 80 miles an hour, going into that 30 mile an hour curve was because the train engineer was tired. he wasn't necessarily completely asleep. he told invest...