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It very well could end up with criminal charges being filed against the actual person/persons that are found to have caused this. Most rail traffic in the US is now handled by CTC, (centralized traffic control) and this type of operations system could be hundreds of miles or even states away from where the wreck actually happened. If it is determined to be the fault of a dispatcher, the guy that punches the buttons to direct the flow and to control rail movements, he very well could be charged with any number of criminal charges, just as any of the crew members that survived, could be charged as well. After a collision like this happens, all of the train crews and the dispatchers are tested for drugs and/or alcohol, to see if it that could be contributed to the wreck. I have been on-site for many accidents such as this, and it is not a pretty sight to see. The weight of just some of the locomotives is almost beyond comprehension, let alone the mass of the entire train consist. We are talking major tonnage, with just the weight of a single locomotive, weighing in at 400,000 pounds just by itself. The bodies of the victims in the double decker passenger car, that the commuter train engine was compressed into, are going to have to be picked out, piece by piece, and this could take several days to do this grizzly task, and identification will probably have to be done by DNA testing.