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FILE - In this May 18, 2015, file photo, pallbearers carry the casket of Rachel Jacobs, a 39-year-old educational software executive who was among eight passengers killed when an Amtrak train from Washington to New York derailed in Philadelphia on May 12, to a hearse after her funeral service in Southfield, Mich. Gilda Jacobs, Rachel's mother, told a U.S. Senate committee Thursday, March 1, 2018, she is seething over the prospect of more delays in installing speed controls, known as positive train control or PTC, that could've prevented the wreck and dozens of others. (Clarence Tabb Jr./The Detroit News via AP, File)

FILE - In this May 18, 2015, file photo, pallbearers carry the casket of Rachel Jacobs, a 39-year-old educational software executive who was among eight passengers killed when an Amtrak train from Washington to New York derailed in Philadelphia on May 12, to a hearse after her funeral service in Southfield, Mich. Gilda Jacobs, Rachel's mother, told a U.S. Senate committee Thursday, March 1, 2018, she is seething over the prospect of more delays in installing speed controls, known as positive train control or PTC, that could've prevented the wreck and dozens of others. (Clarence Tabb Jr./The Detroit News via AP, File)

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