Federal officials expect their investigation into a southwestern Michigan Amtrak train derailment that injured about a dozen people to take six months to a year.
Investigators from Amtrak look over the scene of where an Amtrak train derailed in Niles shortly before 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Mike Hartman
WSBT-TV reports he says there are measurements to take, interviews to conduct and electronic data that needs to be analyzed before a determination of the cause can be made.
The Amtrak train was traveling from Chicago to Pontiac, north of Detroit, on Sunday when two of its locomotives and one or more coaches derailed. It happened near Niles, just north of the Indiana state line.
Amtrak says none of the injuries were considered serious or life-threatening. Amtrak train 350, the Wolverine Service, was carrying approximately 174 passengers and four crew members. The Wolverine Service stops in Ann Arbor.
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