This is our western edition of the broadcast. Nearly 350 passengers and crew members were on board when an amtrak train hit a backhoe on the tracks about 20 miles south of philadelphia in chester, pennsylvania, this morning. Two amtrak workers who were on the backhoe died. Dozens on the train are hurt. Tonight as the investigation gets under way our transportation correspondent kris van cleave is on the scene. Reporter investigators worked around the damaged front end of amtrak train 89 after it collided with a backhoe early sunday morning in chester just south of philadelphia. 341 passengers and seven crew were on the new york to savannah, georgia train, passenger beth blakely. It fell like a car accident, like an impact. And it was a rough ride. It took a long time to stop. And all you could see was a lot of dirt and debris flying past the train and then there were a couple of sort of fire flashes and then we came to a stop. It was pretty panicky. Reporter the National Transportation
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