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NTSB report: Amtrak engineer missed speed-limit signs before the train crashed on a curve south of Tacoma The engineer on the Amtrak train that derailed south of Tacoma on its debut run in December, killing three people and injuring dozens, said he didn't see or didn't recognize the signposts and signals along the track indicating a drastic drop in the speed limit, according to a new report from federal investigators. It was the engineer’s second time driving a train in that direction on a newly opened stretch of track, known as the Point Defiance Bypass. e National Transportation Safety Board interviewed the 55-year-old engineer last week, about a month after the deadly crash. Both the engineer and a qualifying conductor, who was in the locomotive to familiarize himself with the new track, suffered serious injuries, which delayed their interviews, engineer, whose name hasn’t been released, had completed seven to 10 “observational trips” completed only one training trip driving the locomotive south — the direction it was going when it crashed. What’s more, when he saw a signal at the curve, he mistook it for a different one. completed only one training trip driving the locomotive south — the direction it was going when it crashed. What’s more, when he saw a signal at the curve, he mistook it for a different one. The engineer on the Amtrak train that derailed south of Tacoma last month, killing three people and injuring dozens, said he didn’t see or didn’t recognize the signposts and signals along the track indicating a drastic drop in the speed limit, a new report from federal investigators says. It was the engineer’s second time driving a train in that direction on a newly opened stretch of track, known as the Point Defiance Bypass... hired by Amtrak as a conductor in 2004 and was promoted to engineer in 2013, said that when the train passed milepost 15.5 it was traveling at the speed limit, about 79 mph. “The engineer told investigators that he was aware that the curve with the 30 mph speed restriction was at milepost 19.8, and that he had planned to initiate braking about one mile prior to the curve,” the NTSB report says. “The engineer said that he saw mileposts 16 and 17 but didn’t recall seeing milepost 18 or the 30 mph advance speed sign, which was posted two miles ahead of the speed-restricted curve. “The engineer said that he did see the wayside signal at milepost 19.8 (at the accident curve) but mistook it for another signal, which was north of the curve.” By the time he saw a 30 mph signpost right at the curve, he applied the brakes, the report says, but by then it was too late. prior to the derailment, the qualifying conductor [wasn't paying any attention] said he looked down at his copies of the general track bulletins,” the report says. “He then heard the engineer say or mumble something. He then looked up and sensed that the train was becoming ‘airborne.’ ”
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New York Times
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CNN
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Baltimore Sun
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BBC News
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Joplin Globe
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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KPTV.com
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Cyprus Mail
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DeKalb Daily Chronicle
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SFGate
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Patch.com
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Tulsa World
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WSAZ-TV
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Ponoka News
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KTVL
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Muncie Star Press
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