That’s a fairly convoluted area of track. Hard to imagine running ‘full speed’ (as last I saw reported) into Hoboken without a derailment.
Was the engineer’s name Mohamhead or aren’t they saying?
The engineer’s name was Jose.
The maintenance man who fixed the breaks was Mohammed.
Actually, that’s just a surmise on my part. But I won’t be surprised if it turns out to be true.
According to the map, there are switch settings that could have had the train coming more or less straight in.
One tweet said the first car went airborne.
What do those things weigh - 80 tons or so?