From: srfurley@googlemail.com

Even if they were doing something else 50 to 107 is a huge difference they
would know how the train normally feels and sounds, as would regular
passengers; I would have thought they'd notice the difference.  Maybe they
did, but there wasn't time to do 
anything about it.

A map in one news report showed a line speed of 80 mph on a straight section
before the curve, so even on this section the train would have been well over
speed if it had been doing 107.  Is there anywhere on this line in this area,
say between 30th 
street station and the accident site, where there is a speed limit of 100 mph
or higher?  Could the engineer have somehow become confused as to where he
was, and was was not expecting to enter the curve?  I have travelled over that
section of line, in 
the same direction as this train, but only once and about eight years ago; I
don't remember what the line was like.

Interesting that the term 'Engineer' is still used over there for the driver
of a modern train.  That is something I would tend to associate more with the
steam era.

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