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In this aerial photo, emergency personnel work at the scene of a
deadly train wreck, Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Philadelphia.
Federal investigators arrived Wednesday to determine why an
Amtrak train jumped the tracks in the wreck, Another body has
been pulled from the wreckage of an Amtrak train derailment in
Philadelphia, increasing the death toll to at least seven. (AP
Photo/Patrick Semansky)

WASHINGTON — An Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday evening in
Philadelphia was travelling about 107 miles per hour as it
approached a curve where the speed limit less than half that,
according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

Surveillance video viewed by the AP shows the train — which was
roughly 662 feet long — passed the camera in just over five
seconds. But because the video inexplicably plays back slightly
slower than in real time, it took the train a little more than
four seconds to move past a fixed point on the screen.

That means the train was travelling about 107 miles per hour
just before it derailed and tipped over, tearing the cars apart
and killing at least seven people. More than 140 people went to
hospitals to be evaluated or treated from the crash, and several
were critically injured.

The surveillance camera from which the AP reviewed video was
located at an industrial building a few hundred feet before a
bend in the tracks, where the speed limit was only 50 miles per
hour.

Light from an apparent explosion or a brilliant electrical
discharge is visible in the video just over three seconds after
the train passes. That would indicate the train was entering the
curve as it began to derail, with the train located several
hundred feet east of the camera.

The AP reviewed both the surveillance footage and government
mapping data to determine the train's speed and location. That
data showed the relative location of the surveillance camera to
the train's path, the bends in the railroad tracks and the
eventual location of the crash site.

Investigators have since recovered the locomotive's data
recorder and said they expected it to yield crucial information,
including how fast the train was going when it jumped the tracks
in an old industrial neighborhood not far from the Delaware
River shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday.

The Amtrak engineer at the train's control refused to talk to
police Wednesday and declined to provide a statement to
authorities.

https://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/national/2015/05/ap_es
timates_train_in_deadly_crash_was_traveling_107_mph

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