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To: Born to Conserve

Alright, just saw a picture of the engine and it did not look like it severely impacted something, no blood so not even a person.

Something caused the engineer to deaccelerate and the train to derail (also causing the catenarys to cross causing a large explosion of sparks). The next car jackknifed and the following car hit somthing, maybe a bridge support.

If the engineer was alert enough to brake like that then I have a hard time seeing it as his/her fault. Also it just left PHL and was coming into Trenton so I have a hard time believing he wasn’t alert.

A problem with the track is very hard to see from the engine so it would have been something obvious for the engineer to brake.

A train derailer is bright yellow.


178 posted on 05/12/2015 9:46:23 PM PDT by Raymann
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To: Raymann

Thanks for your observations.


183 posted on 05/12/2015 9:47:56 PM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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