benson, arizona visitors center, as you are poking around on their website, you will note if you look closely that the curser for your computer mouse has turned into a little locomotive engine. look. as you are scrolling around the site, you no longer have, like, a little arrow or whatever, it s a little train. it s very cool. and if you go in person to the benson, arizona visitors center, there you can operate a real model train around 96 feet of track. you can use the controllers in the control room and it s got a camera on the front of it. very cool, right? lots to recommend. benson, arizona a lovely looking little place. again, population around 5,000 people. the owner of the arizona diamondbacks baseball team wants to build a new housing development in benson, arizona, which would be 28,000 homes. think about that for a second. there are 5,000 people there now, but they want to put 28,000 houses into that town.
this was the last portion of it. she said it was a $180 million portion of it. in fact, the locomotive engine on i-5 was part of the new purchase. that s a brand-new diesel electric locomotive that s now trashed on the highway. it was nevada about high-speed trains. this was not a high-speed track that we think about with high-speed trains. it wasn t a brand-new track, the type they have in europe or japan. this was basically just what the u.s. has been doing with its trains, just trying to get these old trains to move a little quicker. and it appears this train may have been moving too fast in the turn. it was supposedly only allowed to go 30 miles per hour there. this train appeared to be going a lot faster based on the witnesses we had at the scene. the investigation is just
the latest on this. reporter: the federal investigators will be interviewing the driver of the parade float. he voluntarily submitted to a bloods alcohol level test at the hospital. the feds have determined the warning device at that intersection were indeed functioning properly. the bells and lights went off 20 seconds prior to impact. now special tests will be done to look at the timing here. this is where a similar locomotive engine along with a truck will be at the collision and our investigations will be spending over 3 hours taking measurements, photographs and other kinds of factual