Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times
In those pictures, you can see that the “high-speed tracks” are not enclosed - anybody could walk up onto those from the road ...
Go to Europe or Japan, look at their high-speed lines, they’re all tightly fenced with tall barb-wire-topped systems, nobody can get in.
“just sayin”
You can see the straight line path plowed by the lead engine down to the freeway (dirt, damaged tree bark etc). it is clear that the actual derailment occurred well before the bridge - prior to the curve over the bridge.
I wonder if the orange A’s spraypainted on the locomotive are from investigators? It looks like there’s a cleaned or faded one on the bridge too...
According to the pix on 24, It appears the Lab Rat Knats are taking credit.
I’m pretty sure that truck drive will need clean underwear.
Wow - with all of those cars and only 77 passengers on board. For once I’m glad that an Amtrak train is so lightly loaded. And they wonder why they lose money.
RIP to the dead, but I can only imagine some of the horrific injuries that some of the survivors will have to deal with.
For one thing, they show the soil disturbances / scatter clues as to where units "off-roaded"...
(Kudos to the LEOs -- they even strung yellow "Police Line" tape -- outlining and protecting the "dirt fan" on the I-5 pavement -- on the north side of the bridge...)
I'm working on a Google Earth "overlay" of photos -- but, that's now just for my own interest, since we already know why the accident occurred...
The main engine's path is obvious. Now, I'm trying to figure out where in the "consist" that passenger car (under the bridge, upside down) was located -- and how it got there ...without knocking that light pole down...