Fort Wayne is one step closer to having passenger rail return to the city after 30-plus years as a federal grant has been approved to conduct a study of a
Fort Wayne is one step closer to having a passenger rail to the city since 1990 as a federal grant has been approved to conduct a study of a five-state
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.
number two ranking senate? the democrat speaking right now. they are pushing the vote as late as they can. but in the next few minutes the senate will vet and pass this bill which will be celebrated at the white house at some point tomorrow. in the mean, tonight both black boxes have been recovered are from the deadly train derailment in washington state. three people killed and more than 100 hurt. it was the first new run of this route and a technology called positive train control was not activated on this brand-new passenger rail line. we are learning where the crew was when the train derailed. kyung lah joins with us more. the ntsb says the lead conductor wasn t at the controls. is that right? reporter: yeah, he wasn t there. he was in the passenger section of the train. we re not exactly sure which car. but we re told that he was somewhere in the passenger section, not the cab. here is what the ntsb says. yes, there were two people in
run on 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 curved section of track. investigators already recovered the train s rear black box. and they also know this. life-saving technology called positive train control, was not activated on this brand-new passenger rail line. ptc forces speeding trains to automatically slow down. we re going to find out exactly what ptc or positive train control would have prevented this accident. it s a great disappointment that positive train control has not been implemented in every single railroad across the country. because it can prevent these exact types of accidents, which are overspeed derailments. reporter: positive train control won t be the only safety question. i m an advocate for safety. i m not so concerned about the