From: jgrove24@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 6:18:22 PM UTC-5, Stephen Furley wrote:   
   > 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?     
      
   Maybe he was confused and believed he was heading Southbound instead. Is the   
   speed limit on tracks going South of 30th St. higher ??   
      
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