I’ll bet with almost 100 % certainty that the analasyes from the N.T.S.B. will show that the windshield will show that what hit that windshield is staring them right in the face.
Metal from the catenary lines poles, the the rail road ballest rocks, and traces of copper from those copper electric cables hitting that windshield.
Isn’t there also a cat walk just about 50 yards from the engine ?
They will find traces of metal on that engine from that cat walk from the engine hitting it.
Notice that the N.T.S.B. is stepping away from the story and theory that some kind of projectile hit that train ?
“Notice that the N.T.S.B. is stepping away from the story and theory that some kind of projectile hit that train ?”
I did not realize the NTSB was now distancing itself from that theory.
Interesting.
I doubt that ballast from the line bed caused the left window damage, but the catenary line towers / lines, some other debris alongside the line, or something of that nature caused the damage. I don’t see ballast scattered from the crash doing that kind of damage or reaching the window with enough force to do that kind of damage (the physics don’t seem logical to me).