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.
Now we’re back to software and braking override failure we talked this AM about. Unless they want us to believe the engineer was fine with doin 80 in a 30mph turn.
Looks like the loco took down a few fair sized trees.
Hitting a tree tends to slow you down.