lead conductor was in the passenger section not in the cab. instead the engineer and a conductor in training were in the cab. the engineer still allowed to operate the train. >> under amtrak policy he couldn't operate the train unless he was qualified and familiar with this territory. so the answer would be yes, within the preefs two weeks he'd been qualified to operate on the territory. >> reporter: but the ntsb says the crew did not hit the emergency break before the derailment. it was automatically saactivate. but still no answer why on its very first run at a new passenger route the train sped at 80 miles per hour, much faster than the posted 30 mile per hour speed limit for the kuvd section of the track. they also know this, lifesaving technology called positive train control was not activated on this brand new passenger rail line.