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Human performance group which talk about fatigue training and maybe toxicology. of course the equipment and they will look at the brakes. the track, because i understand there were some deferred maintenance on the track. signal systems and i understand that the locomotive had a cab signal system telling the engineer what his speed should have been. of course emergency response and injury preve of those areas particularly operations, train handling and equipment braking, and indictly human performance will be probably be the things they will concentrate most on. jenna: what is timeline for real...

Phone. how much can we learn from the data recorders that have been taken from the scene? >> well, the recorders and there were two taken off. one from the control cab at the rear of the train and one from the locomotive at the head of the train and they will have identical parameters they will record. that includes as you mentioned, speed, braking pressure, another train handling parameters, am percentage and things like that to tell how hard the locomotive pulling, and how hard it was braking and those kind of things. jenna: based on your experience what is your impression about what happene...