Its obvious that human or mechanical error played a part in this accident. The switch was set to the siding where the freight train was standing, not to the mainline. At 2:30 AM in the darkness of night the engineer in the Amtrak cab at 59 mph never had a chance to touch the brakes or even hit the floor. He was a good engineer with a clean record and so was the conductor. Since they own the tracks and do the dispatching CSX will probably pay big time for this error.
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