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The equipment, or the way it's operated. there was a train up in north dakota that derailed, a train that was carrying crude oil. it was a broken axle. the philadelphia crash may of 2015 was train handling, the guy was going around a curve too fast. a wide gauge on the track, broken rail, a train went over it. all those, amtrak, railroads are going to do is start where the train ended up and walk backwards to see where it left the track. it's going to happen a half mile before and it finally crashed over the bridge. >> sandra: when we look at these pictures, we are still trying to wrap our min...
Will cause a train to go on the ground, something wrong with the track, something wrong with the equipment, something wrong with the way the train is handled. train handling, think of frankfurt junction, may of 2005 in philadelphia. something wrong with the equipment, think of the train that derailed into the pass of an oil train in north or south dakota a couple of years ago. those are the kinds of things that will cause a train to go on the ground. what ntsb and the railroad, amtrak are going to do, they'll go where the train stops, work their way backwards and find out where the train went ...
>> what's the list include of scientific information that you will get, for example, the raw data as you call it? what is available to them besides telling them how fast it was going that will be -- they can get that almost instantaneously? >> it will tell them -- besides the speed it will tell them what's going on with the engine and that means how hard it's pulling and things of that nature. passenger train is a lot easier to deal with than a freight train which might be over a mile long. it's a little bit more, say, direct as far as train handling. they'll be able to get train handling info...
Better idea of what some of the possibilities are that they'll be looking for either in the positive or negative. for example, the track expert. >> the track expert, he's going to do a couple things. first of all, they're going to -- everything they're going to look at on site is going to be stuff that they're going to deem perishable, things that because of clearing or trying to get people out of the cars and things like that, they might have to move cars. they're going to try to get to things that might disappear just in wreck clearage and things like that. they'll want to document those rig...