“one of its trains took a wrong turn “
Must be one of those self-driving trains. Gotta stop them trains from missing a turn.
“accidentally “
The switching apparatus malfunctioned, and the poor train went the wrong way.
Really amazing how these trains work these days - no humans anywhere near the trains to drive them.
Amtrak has union engineers (humans) that drive the engine cars. The engineer has comm with the track sensors that tell them where they are (mile markers).
Two things happened, the switch was not set correctly for shared amtrak lines (commuter rail to Bala Cynwyd on SEPTA) and the amtrak owned tracks to NYC; second, the engineer had to have known and reported in— if not- they are toast. Especially if a commuter train came into Bala Cynwyd and hit them- from either direction. So this is dispatcher also.