Investigators seek answers amid derailment cleanup

Thursday, December 21, 2017

DUPONT, Wash. -- Federal investigators in the deadly Amtrak wreck want to know whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in his cab as his train hurtled into a curve at more than twice the speed limit.

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