[Pearls Before Swine]

How far offshore was the ship anchored? Some magical thinking is involved here, unless it was docked near the rail spur.

[nascarnation]

Hard to tell from the video...maybe somebody from the area has a perspective on it. They show the locomotive and the ship but not in the same camera shot.

[Brown Deer]

The locomotive crashed through a series of barriers and fences before coming to rest more than 250 yards (228 meters) from the U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Mercy.