From: srfurley@googlemail.com   
      
   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?  I have travelled over that   
   section of line, in    
   the same direction as this train, but only once and about eight years ago; I   
   don't remember what the line was like.   
      
   Interesting that the term 'Engineer' is still used over there for the driver   
   of a modern train.  That is something I would tend to associate more with the   
   steam era.   
      
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