Cars on both sides of the trestle.
Photos can be deceiving, but that train hit the trestle pretty square with cars off the track on both sides of it.
If a train goes off the track around a curve due to excessive speed (only), the rail cars will generally be all on one side of the track, outside the curve.
As a layman outside the investigation, that one picture seemed to refute the idea this we solely excessive speed.
Perhaps others observed something I didn’t, and this would not make sense in light of that.
WSDOT says it’s a 30mph curve.
The train was doing 81.1mph.
It would not matter if there was something on the track or not.
Cars on both sides of the trestle.
You’re on to something.
The cars don’t rattle off both sides unless there was an obstacle but the speed appears excessive as well
This arshole a Airbase Mildenhall.. today, a Jihadi was busted last year for casing the base.
Dipstick had a pass
“If a train goes off the track around a curve due to excessive speed (only), the rail cars will generally be all on one side of the track, outside the curve.”
the engine and first car will go off that way, but the rest of the cars are then so abruptly slowed that they’ll start jack-knifing and going every which way ...
From the animation they showed, it seemed the cars immediately piled up, causing some to veer left and some right.
They started that way; and if the engine had not have stopped by plowing into the ground, then all of then would have gone to the right.
The little valley (ditch?) could only hold about 4-5 cars, then they piled into them as were scattered all different directions.