robert sumalt, who is a board member, made that revelation at the press conference here and here's some of what he had to say. >> the engineer applied fully mergecy brake application. maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 miles per hour. when the engineer induced brake application was applied the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. >> reporter: now as of this moment the ntsb is not prepared to say why the train was traveling so fast, they also declined to provide any biographical information on the engineer saying they simply don't know that yet. their investigation is moving forward to determine more information about why this happened and among all of the late developments from the scene. live from frankford walt hunter cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> thanks very much walt. we are learning important information about exactly what happened last night. we are also learning more about some of those who lost their lives in this tragic accident in port richmond. jim gaines was an associated press staffer. that is him on the left. he work as a video software s