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Aside all existing ideas on train speed. it runs on rail links a mile long on which it has reached 150 miles an hour on a trial run. even then it was not flat out. translation: nobody had ever gone that fast, - maybe on a plane taking off but no one had ever experienced it on land. it was just incredible, i can't explain it. well, when i got a job at japan railways, it was sort of a dream come true because before that, i did not really have a job so once i started working there, ifelt like it meant i could become part of society. after a few years, the

Government this time says amtrak service may not be rea in-stated until automatic train control is put this place. so guess what they did? they put it in over the weekend. so not only is it inexpensive, it is easy to install. and every time they do it after there is blood on the tracks. every time. it would be nice if they actually maybe looked at all the different curves where train speed would affect a derailment and put automatic train control in before people die. that would prevent people dying. >> and here is the thing. a tragedy like this happens. and you needily have people coming out ...

Hour. three seconds later, when the data to the recorders terminated, the train speed was 102 miles per hour. >> a nearby surveillance camera captured what appears to be explosions as the train derailed at 9:21 p.m. six out of seven cars left the tracks and the engine was completely separated from the rest of the train. over 200 of the 243 people on board were taken to area hospitals where many were treated for rib fractures for being tossed by the train's violent motion. nbc news has confirmed the train's engineer was named brandon bostia. he was reportedly injured in the crash and later rele...

This idea of the train going over 100 miles an hour, down the tracks through northeast philly, we almost intrinsically knew as americans that that spelled catastrophe, that something was wrong with that, 100 miles per hour? 106 miles per hour? clearly that was the problem, we knew it. between the cities of barcelona and madrid, the average train speed is 154 miles per hour. trains between tokyo and asaka go 200 miles an hour. for us, the richest, most powerful nation on earth, the average train speed on our northeast corridor which is our show piece for our high speed trains, our average speed...

>> john golia, if there was an extraordinary amount of operation to get that train up to that speed in less than ten minutes, is that something that the passengers would have sensed? would that have felt unusual? >> maybe. maybe. but, you know, i've been on trains where if you're not paying attention, you're doing something else, you may not pick that up right away. so -- and you know, let's not forget that this track that amtrak has has been rebuilt in the not too distant past to help with the high speed trains. so there's a good possibility that the bed was so well prepared that you wouldn't...