Amtrak and Washington State Department of Transportation officials are scheduled to testify Wednesday at the state Capitol about the derailment of an Amtrak Cascades train on Interstate 5 in DuPont.
Three people were killed, and dozens were injured.
Federal investigators say the train was going 78 miles per hour when it derailed on a curve Dec. 18, 2017. It was supposed to be going 30 miles per hour.
State senator Steve O'Ban, R-Pierce County, a member of the Senate Transportation Committee, said he wants to focus on how the engineers were trained, why the curve wasn't fixed to accommodate high-speed rail, and why implementation of positive train control -- which could have slowed the train -- was delayed.
