Deadly Amtrak wreck blamed on distracted engineer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train ran off the rails in Philadelphia last year was apparently distracted by word that a train nearby had been hit by a rock, federal investigators concluded Tuesday, pinning most of the blame on him for the wreck that killed eight people. "He went, in a matter of seconds, from distraction to disaster," National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train ran off the rails in Philadelphia last year was apparently distracted by word that a train nearby had been hit by a rock, federal investigators concluded Tuesday, pinning most of the blame on him for the wreck that killed eight people. "He went, in a matter of seconds, from distraction to disaster," National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said.…