DUPONT, Wash. (NBC News) – Two days after the inaugural run of what was to be the fastest train from Portland to Seattle ended in a deadly derailment, there are still more questions than answers.
The last piece of the ill-fated Amtrak 501 was hauled away from the crash site Wednesday morning.
“Now that we have access, that locomotive is now gone, we can finally access the actual damage to I-5 and finish the repairs to the overpass,” said Captain Dan Hall of Washington State Patrol.
Investigators have confirmed that a conductor-in-training was with the engineer at the time of the crash and was trying to gain experience on the brand-new train line, but the engineer had run the route before.
They are also studying data from both black boxes and working to retrieve footage from the train’s cameras.
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