Article, # 50 , 57 , ... and photos
Posted on 11/14/2015 8:06:49 AM PST by PghBaldy
Bingo. If terrorists can get AK47s they can get their hands on railroad derailers.
What a coincidence
Article, # 50 , 57 , ... and photos
That’s terrible if it does turn out that the bridge jumped out there and struck this train. Sneaky bridges. And I here I thought they were all peaceful.
Inviting all those islamic “refugees” in and giving them all sorts of stuff is turning out to be a real game winner.
Just happened to occur on a bridge and cars are scattered everywhere. Naw, nothing more than a mishap in the laboratory. Move along. Nothing to see.
The train left the tracks out-of-frame off to the lower left of the photo.
It appears that the front unit stayed almost on course, and the remainder of the train "whiplashed" out toward the adjacent rail line.
The piece of car at mid-upper right (at the end of the row of trees) appears to be the front end. If the initiation source was onboard, I'd look for evidence of the source in the engine unit.
The burning debris at the lower left corner of the bridge should contain some clues...
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It must have been nearly empty of passengers -- otherwise, the casualty toll would have been much higher, IMO...
If it was, indeed, traveling at TGV speeds, that would account for the front unit traveling almost airborne and almost in a straight line from the point of rail departure...
Awful lot of damage for a “derailment”.
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As I implied in #69, the mass of a train traveling this fast:
A TGV test train set the record for the fastest wheeled train, reaching 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) on 3 April 2007.can almost fly when it leaves the tracks. Toss in an elevated railbed and a canal -- and you have a recipe for mayhem...In mid-2011, scheduled TGV trains operated at the highest speeds in conventional train service in the world, regularly reaching 320 km/h (200 mph)....
It looks like sabotage to me, based on the facts.
Too much smoke, smoke in too many places, too much damage of the wrong kind and in the wrong place for a simple derailment.
TWB
You call leaving an elevated railbed at over 200 mph a simple derailment?
Every point you made is wrong.
Put away your conspiracy theorist hat until you learn enough about simple physics to even try analyzing complex disasters.
See #68 for an introduction to analysis...
Very interesting picture. Appears the motivepower, at lower left in the pic, left the tracks well before the bridge. I would imagine that the rest of the train did as well. Any more pics of the bridge itself?
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