Video suggests the train was speeding.
Reach out and touch your things?
And Jerry brown wants hundreds of miles of unguarded trains at billions.
Amtraks are cleared for 70mph in most open areas of track.
Shouldn’t take too long to calculate speed from the video. Wreckage seems to indicate that the loco went loose first and the first passenger car wrapped itself around a ibeam pole holding up the wires.
Over 100 mph. I’ve been on high speed trains, over all I felt secure. Though, if one were to crash, it does feel a bit like being in a tin can.