[CedarDave]

Reports from experienced rail folks on another site are disturbing:

my buddy's on scene on the tracks ... he just called me ... he said there's a crater in the track that the FBI won't let anybody near ... bomb squad on scene with bomb sniffer dogs ... i believe the engineer is one of the fatalities but not confirmed ... now we've seen plenty of derailments ... he said he'd never seen nothing like it ... concrete ties obliterated ... cat poles hanging ... my opinion ... something forced that train off the track and i'm starting to think with the info i just got that something sinister occured ...

And from another poster:

The damage to the one mangled, V'd car is bizarre. Similar accident on Pennsy in same area in 1943. Tank car on adjacent track but does not seem to have been involved or disturbed. The force needed to bend an Amfleet in half is tremendous. Built by Budd to withstand 800,000 pound compression load force at the ends and 300,000 lb horizontal load at the sides. I don't understand it! I was praying no fataltities, but someone has posted 5 dead. I am saddened by this news. NBC10 Philly just mentioned that rails were extremenly bent and what force would be needed to bend them by the derailed loco. The loco is almost 217,000 pounds. I am more interested in how that Amfleet became so mangled. I am totally perplexed and shocked at this!

If this is any thing other than a mechanical/track malfunction or unintentional human error, we have a new national security problem, though the Feds would likely try to bury it like TWA 800.

[matthew fuller]

Thanks for this report, possibly the most significant of the thread.

[tcrlaf]

Twitter pic from PzFeed:

[Raymann]

I know all those engineers. :(

[21twelve]

Do you mind posting a link to the other site? Sounds like some interesting information. Obviously a bomb on the tracks is all too plausible. (Years ago when Israel was having so much terrorism I kept thinking how easy it would be for them to do that here.)

[Sarah Barracuda]

WOW if that’s true, sounds like something ISIS would do..remember all the warnings we have heard these past few days about how ISIS terrorists are ready to attack here, this sounds like something right up their alley

[Sarah Barracuda]

This was on abc news site a few days ago

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90646&page=1

FBI warms of train bomb threat

[Lonely Bull]

The damage to the one mangled, V'd car is bizarre.

What does "V'd" mean? Thanks in advance.

[Biggirl]

Would not surprise me if this gets treated just like that TWA 800 jet incident. The feds do not want to “offend” the Muslim community, just coming off the “draw Muhammed” incident.

[null and void]

my buddy's on scene on the tracks ... he just called me ... he said there's a crater in the track that the FBI won't let anybody near ... bomb squad on scene with bomb sniffer dog

Not terrorism.

Swamp gas.

[fatima]

Thanks CedarDave.Bump.