Sad situation... Mayor kinda jumped the gun with his comments, although the NTSB is saying that the train not only was traveling at 106 mph in a zone marked for 50 mph, but also that the train seemed to accelerate into the curve prior to derailing. I feel terrible for the victims, both the deceased and survivors. I've taken this train a lot in the past year, albeit it between Philadelphia and DC... but I've always ridden without so much as a care for a hard brake, let alone a derailment. This train crashed not even 10 minutes after leaving 30th Street Station in Philly... hard to understand why the train would have gotten up to such a speed so soon after departure, let alone speeding into a dangerous curve.
