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[Kiwithrottlejockey]

from The Seattle Times....

• Amtrak train was traveling 50 mph over limit when it derailed at curve before I-5 crossing



An NTSB investigator looks over the crumpled vehicle pulled from under the Amtrak bridge on Tuesday
at the site of the fatal train derailment near DuPont. — Photograph: Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times.


NTSB investigators, center wearing green vests, walk near the bridge over I-5 where the Amtrak train derailed.
 — Photograph: Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times.


One of the damaged train cars is trucked away from the scene of the fatal Amtrak derailment as work continues at the site
on Tuesday morning. — Photograph: Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times.


The investigation continues throughout Tuesday on the freeway overpass where an Amtrak Cascades train derailed on Monday.
 — Photograph: Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times.


Damaged Amtrak train cars were loaded onto trucks on Tuesday morning and hauled away from the derailment site along Interstate 5
between Lakewood and Olympia. — Photograph: Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times.


This view, looking south along Interstate 5, shows the continuing derailment investigation as well as the effort to remove
the damaged cars from the scene near DuPont. — Photograph: Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times.


Crews began to remove derailed train cars on the trestle early Tuesday, but wreckage remained visible below.
 — Photograph: Christine Clarridge/The Seattle Times.


Seats are jammed together with other debris on an upside-down Amtrak train car taken on Tuesday from the scene of Monday's
deadly crash onto Interstate 5. — Photograph: Elaine Thompson/The Associated Press.


Two damaged train cars are carried on flatbed trailers from the scene of Monday's fatal Amtrak train crash onto Interstate 5 at DuPont.
The investigation and cleanup continued throughout Tuesday. — Photograph: Elaine Thompson/The Associated Press.


A damaged Amtrak train car is lowered from an overpass at the scene of Monday's deadly train crash onto Interstate 5 at DuPont.
 — Photograph: Elaine Thompson/The Associated Press.


The rear car of a crashed Amtrak train remained standing early Tuesday where the southbound tracks make a curve to the left.
The train that plunged off an overpass at that site was going much higher than the speed limit, federal authorities said.
 — Photograph: Elaine Thompson/The Associated Press.

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