Amtrak Train Engineer

An Amtrak passenger train apparently traveling on the wrong track collided with a parked CSX Corp freight train in South Carolina on Sunday, killing the engineer and conductor and injuring at least 116 in the railroad's third fatal crash in as many months, authorities said.

Federal investigators said Thursday that data gathered from an Amtrak train carrying Republican lawmakers that hit a garbage truck near Crozet, Virginia, on Wednesday indicates that the engineer activated the emergency brake and the train came to a full stop 20 seconds later.

The engineer driving a speeding Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia in 2015, killing eight passengers, was distracted by radio traffic before the derailment, US safety officials said on Tuesday after a year-long investigation.

Investigators on Friday sought to explain why an Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia had accelerated in the minute before it derailed, putting a sharper edge on questions over the engineer's responsibility for the fatal accident.

A portrait of the engineer at the helm of a speeding Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia began to emerge on Thursday as the man's lawyer said his client could not remember the crash and rescuers pulled an eighth body from the wreckage.

An Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia, killing seven people, was barrelling into a curved stretch of track at 100 miles per hour, over twice the speed limit, when the engineer slammed on the brakes, US investigators said on Wednesday.

An Amtrak passenger train apparently traveling on the wrong track collided with a parked CSX Corp freight train in South Carolina on Sunday, killing the engineer and conductor and injuring at least 116 in the railroad's third fatal crash in as many months, authorities said.

Federal investigators said Thursday that data gathered from an Amtrak train carrying Republican lawmakers that hit a garbage truck near Crozet, Virginia, on Wednesday indicates that the engineer activated the emergency brake and the train came to a full stop 20 seconds later.

The engineer driving a speeding Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia in 2015, killing eight passengers, was distracted by radio traffic before the derailment, US safety officials said on Tuesday after a year-long investigation.

Investigators on Friday sought to explain why an Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia had accelerated in the minute before it derailed, putting a sharper edge on questions over the engineer's responsibility for the fatal accident.

A portrait of the engineer at the helm of a speeding Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia began to emerge on Thursday as the man's lawyer said his client could not remember the crash and rescuers pulled an eighth body from the wreckage.

An Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia, killing seven people, was barrelling into a curved stretch of track at 100 miles per hour, over twice the speed limit, when the engineer slammed on the brakes, US investigators said on Wednesday.