[EBH]

NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt, stressing he was working with preliminary information, said the train was traveling at 106 mph as it entered a sharp curve where the speed limit was 50 mph. The engineer he said, launched a “full emergency brake application” a few seconds before the train derailed 11 minutes after leaving the Philadelphia station, crumpling cars and throwing around many of the 243 aboard.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/13/amtrak-train-crashes-in-philadelphia-several-people-appear-to-be-injured/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obinsite

So the train got up to 106mph in only 11 minutes? Sounds more like a malfunction no?

[tacticalogic]

So the train got up to 106mph in only 11 minutes? Sounds more like a malfunction no?

Possible. But it would also mean the engineer wasn't monitoring the train's speed for that 11 minutes or he'd have taken some action well before then.

[Paladin2]

The locomotive is electric and has 8600 peak hp. Think Tesla.

[Ready4Freddy]

“So the train got up to 106mph in only 11 minutes?”

According to the NTSB it accelerated from 70 mph to ~106 in barely over a minute.