I am not knowledgeable as to trains. I ride them, I like them, I fool around with models — but for the Real Big Ones, I’m not an expert at all.
Having said that...
From the TeeVee pictures, it looked like the engine was still on the tracks. EVERY car had derailed.
...and, it looks like they “got all ziggy-zaggy” and rear-ended each other, and fell off the rails.
That seems odd to me.
Somewhere in the rush of displays of ignorance and idiocy that is the rattle and blather of the news, someone said there were two engines — a fairly normal thing. But only one showed in the pictures. (Perhaps the leader had been disconnected and pulled away from the wreck...)
Even so, it still seems odd.
Now, you may recall The Bad Guys publish a magazine, “Rumiah.” Very slick and professional. In recent months they ran a nice how-to article about a home-made train de-railer, made with rebar and concrete.
To me, this event sounds exactly like what they were promoting in that article.
Maybe just a coincidence.
Nothing to see here. Move along, please...
The train had two engines, one on either end. The engine still on the rails is the rear engine. The lead engine ended up on the freeway. There are photos of it on other threads.
I think I read earlier that there was a locomotive at each end of the train. It’s possible that the one you saw on the tracks was the one at the rear of the train.
The rear engine and was still on the track. The front engine went off the track, down the embankment and onto the freeway. It stopped fairly short even with all the cars behind it still pushing. I don’t believe it was going 81 miles an hour or it would have crossed the road. You’d think. NBC had a computer generated “video” of how it probably happened based on the locations of the cars once they were stopped.
The brand new engine is smashed a bit and on the road.
“...and, it looks like they “got all ziggy-zaggy” and rear-ended each other, and fell off the rails:”
That is a huge risk from sudden braking. When Lucy pulls the cord and the train skids to a stop, flat spotting steel wheels and derailing just that way are giant risks.
Antifa has taken credit in a post last night claiming it was to stop the movement of fracking equipment - using the rebar and concrete method.
Evergreen was the place where the leftist prof was driven out because he was white, and refused to buy into the Minority Only Day on campus. He thought his Socialist chops would protect him.
It's the alma mater of Rachel Corrie, Patron Saint of IHOP.
She's the stupid c#nt that was protesting Israeli IDF tractors knocking down the houses that Hezbollah was using in Gaza to launch rockets into Israel. She had gone to Gaza as part of her senior-year college, (Evergreen), assignment to connect her home-town, Olympia, with Rafah in a sister cities project. She laid down in front of an armored IDF D-8 Cat, and got crushed.
The LAST thing the People's Democratic Republic of Washington, or the Ministry of Truth, ABCNBCCNNCBS would admit is whether this is Antifa sabotage...