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Destruction and more than when we started the conversation, more cars down below, what are your questions? >> well, with that many cars derailed, it's not unusual i wouldn't think because the train was going probably at least 79 miles an hour. maybe more. if there was overspeed, this many cars would likely derail, particularly at an overpass. that's not unusual as far as i'm concerned. more important to me would be the movement of the train, speed-wise and track conditions. preliminary testing of the train movements and also the two employees being on the locomotive. i think it's very clear.

And we could take some of the congestion out of there, and get true high-speed traffic in there, and we don't have to vest public money, and the private sector will do it, and virgin trail did it in england. >> let's talk about privatization for just a second. amtrak lost $227 million last year and needs $52 billion in infrastructure work and the technology that positive train control that would have presented the philadelphia derailment cost $52,000 per mile of track, and if you own a private rail company, if you are a private company, congressman micah, would you buy amtrak? >> you don't hav...