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Rail tunnel officials confident despite funding questions

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

Coastal train route to be used until new technology in place

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Brandon Bostian, the engineer involved in the 2015 Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, departs from the center for criminal justice in Philadelphia after a hearing, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017. The fight to reinstate criminal charges against Bostian will carry over into next year. A judge on Wednesday told prosecutors that she'll review Bostian's case and set a hearing for February. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Prosecutors can try to reinstate charges in ‘15 Amtrak wreck

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials

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3rd man killed in train wreck was convicted sex offender

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State Patrol officers and workers gather before transporting the engine from an Amtrak train crash two days earlier away from the scene, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. Federal investigators in the deadly train 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. The train took a 30 mph curve at 80 mph and plunged off an overpass, sending rail cars plummeting onto a busy highway south of Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The Latest: Governor says Amtrak will pay derailment costs

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Workers look over tracks near the rear car of a crashed Amtrak train that remains standing where the southbound tracks make a curve left Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train that careened off the overpass south of Seattle killing a few people on Monday, federal investigators say. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Amtrak didn’t wait for system that could’ve prevented wreck

By MICHAEL SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Rail Passengers Association shows Jim Hamre. Hamre and fellow train enthusiast Zack Willhoite were among the victims of Monday's deadly derailment outside Seattle. Loved ones said Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, that Hamre and Willhoite died when an Amtrak train plunged off an overpass and toppled some cars onto a highway below. (Rail Passengers Association via AP)

2 rail buffs who pushed for faster trains killed in accident

By SALLY HO and PHUONG LE - Associated Press

A damaged Amtrak passenger train car is lifted from the tracks at the site of the derailment of an Amtrak train in Dupont, Wash., Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass on Monday, killing several people, was distracted by the presence of an employee-in-training next to him in the locomotive, a federal official said Tuesday. (Thomas James/Pool via AP)

Expert: New route may have distracted engineer before crash

By PHUONG LE - Associated Press

Traffic moves along northbound Interstate 5, left, as southbound lanes are filled with emergency vehicles near the scene of an Amtrak train crash Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off the overpass Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing some people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Official: Train brake automatically activated in fatal wreck

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and HAVEN DALEY - Associated Press

A damaged train car sits atop a flatbed trailers after being removed from the scene of Monday's deadly Amtrak train crash onto Interstate 5 as northbound traffic passes nearby Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. Federal investigators say they don’t yet know why the train was traveling 50 mph over the speed limit when it derailed Monday south of Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The Latest: Amtrak speed-control technology was months away

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Workers walk over tracks near a curve at the back of where an Amtrak train derailed above Interstate 5, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off the overpass Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing several people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Amtrak train derailed on new, faster route that drew concern

By PHUONG LE and MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks on national security Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in Washington. Trump says his new national security strategy puts &quot;America First.&quot; (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump sells short the record of predecessors

By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

Cars from an Amtrak train lay spilled onto Interstate 5 below as some remain on the tracks above Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off the overpass Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing some people, authorities said. Seventy-eight passengers and five crew members were aboard when the train moving at more than 80 mph derailed about 40 miles south of Seattle before 8 a.m., Amtrak said. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Trump cites train derailment in tweet promoting infrastructure-spending plan

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Lights illuminate cars from an Amtrak train that derailed above Interstate 5, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off the overpass Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing several people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Derailed Amtrak train traveling at 80 mph in 30 mph zone when it went off the overpass

By Rachel La Corte, Gillian Flaccus and Michael Sisak - Associated Press

Workers walk over tracks near a curve at the back of where an Amtrak train derailed above Interstate 5, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off the overpass Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing several people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Amtrak train derailed on new, faster route that drew concern

By PHUONG LE and MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

A list of recent Amtrak derailments

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New York, New Jersey reach funding pact for new rail tunnel

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

One of last great Washington train rides coming to an end

By Craig Sailor - Associated Press

Pilot program will take Downeaster to Rockland

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