Amtrak ordered to improve safety at crash site
The Federal Railroad Administration on Saturday ordered Amtrak to expand a safety monitoring system on the section of track where a speeding train derailed last week, killing eight people. Already in place on nearby tracks, the system alerts the engineer when a train is speeding, and automatically applies the brakes if the engineer fails to act. On Tuesday, a train traveling from Washington, D.C., to New York flew off the rails in Philadelphia after traveling 106 miles per hour in a 50 mph zone.
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