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Is a primary rail line there in the state of washington. so it gets a lot of attention. also, the cars are -- on the train are regularly inspected. there are inspection devices that check for cracks in wheels and so on to prevent this particular thing from happening. >> so it would be strange if the -- excuse me -- if the track was broken, it would be very strange it wouldn't be picked up? i mean, if a wheel broke, a wheel breaks real time, you couldn't predict that beforehand. but if the track was broken, they would have caught that? >> well, sometimes -- if the track was cracked in advance o...

Us. >> the wheels the train wheels went off the track. and it could be because of a defective rail. it could have been because a wheel broke. metal fatigue sometimes causes these problems. >> that is one of the many things ntsb is going to have to investigate we want to get more input now from another expert who is a railroad safety consultant. we're going to go to him i just want to update our viewers. it is about two hours now since we've heard that this passenger train had detailed. amtrak train detrailed and had no official briefing from first responders, the mayor's office amtrak, or anyo...