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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   
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