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Comment By The Associated Press MailTribune.com By The Associated Press Posted May. 17, 2015 at 5:55 PM By The Associated Press Posted May. 17, 2015 at 5:55 PM » Social News PHILADELPHIA — Amtrak's Northeast Corridor trains will resume service Monday in "complete compliance" with federal safety orders following last week's deadly derailment, officials announced Sunday. Company president Joseph Boardman said Amtrak staff and crew have been working "around the clock" to restore service along the route between Washington and Boston following Tuesday night's crash that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others. "Our infrastructure repairs have been made with the utmost care and emphasis on infrastructure integrity including complete compliance with Federal Railroad Administration directives," Boardman said in a statement Sunday. Federal regulators on Saturday ordered Amtrak to expand use of a speed-control system long in effect for southbound trains near the crash site to northbound trains in the same area. The agency also ordered the company to examine all curves along the Northeast Corridor and determine if more can be done to improve safety, and to increase speed limit signs along the route. Service along the corridor will resume Monday with the 5:30 a.m. southbound train leaving New York City and the 5:53 a.m. northbound train leaving Philadelphia, and all Acela Express, Northeast Regional and other services will resume for the first time since the accident, the company said. At a service Sunday evening at the crash site to honor the victims, Boardman choked up as he called Tuesday "the worst day for me as a transportation professional" and vowed that the train and its passengers "will never be forgotten." "We'll open with service tomorrow morning, a safer service," Boardman said. "... We quickly made changes and I'm grateful. I'm thankful." U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told the 150 people attending the service that Amtrak acted on the measures ordered by federal regulators over the weekend. He said the company has installed new technology that will monitor and correct train speed, posted new speed limit signs and initiated a study of potentially dangerous curves. The response was one way to honor the eight passengers killed in the crash, many of whom were riding the train home to their families, he said. Mayor Michael Nutter praised the work of first responders, hospital personnel and residents he called "citizen responders" who rushed toward the wreckage with bottled water and who opened their doors to shocked victims. He read the names of the deceased as a bell tolled and eight doves were released just after a choral group sang "Amazing Grace." Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board, meanwhile, have focused on the acceleration of the train as it approached the curve, finally reaching 106 mph as it entered the 50-mph stretch north of central Philadelphia, and only managing to slow down slightly before the crash. "The only way that an operable train can accelerate would be if the engineer pushed the throttle forward. And ... the event recorder does record throttle movement. We will be looking at that to see if that corresponds to the increase in the speed of the train," board member Robert Sumwalt told CNN's "State of the Union." The Amtrak engineer, who was among those injured in the crash, has told authorities that he does not recall anything in the few minutes before it happened. Investigators have also been looking into reports that the windshield of the train may have been struck by some sort of object, but Sumwalt said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program on Sunday that he wanted to "downplay" the idea that damage to the windshield might have come from someone firing a shot at the train. "I've seen the fracture pattern; it looks like something about the size of a grapefruit, if you will, and it did not even penetrate the entire windshield," Sumwalt said. Officials said an assistant conductor on the derailed train said she heard the Amtrak engineer talking with a regional train engineer and both said their trains had been hit by objects. But Sumwalt said the regional train engineer recalls no such conversation, and investigators had listened to the dispatch tape and heard no communications from the Amtrak engineer to the dispatch center to say that something had struck the train. "But, nevertheless, we do have this mark on the windshield of the Amtrak train, so we certainly want to trace that lead down," he told CNN. By The Associated Press MailTribune.com By The Associated Press Posted May. 17, 2015 at 5:55 PM » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. Southern Oregon Directory Featured Businesses Loading... 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