Amtrak does not own or maintain most of tracks it operates on. Majority (including accident site) is owned and maintained by private freight railways and state governments. Amtrak owns most of Northeast Corridor (Washington D.C. to New Rochelle and New Haven to Boston) and some lesser sections of track in Southern California and Michigan.
Latest what I have heard from Yle (Finnish national brodcaster) said that according to event data recorder of trailing locomotive, train was operating at speed of about 130 km/h in section where speed limit is 50 km/h. They also said that NTSB hasn't been able to event data recorder of leading locomotive and they are unable to say why train was operating at excessive speed.
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