The local passenger commuter trains here have engines at both ends, so it
always has one engine at the front pulling and the other at the back
pushing..

Snow...

"Jeff Strickland" > wrote in message
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> The reason the train derailed so easily was that it was being pushed. If
> the
> engine was in the front, and was pulling the train, by all accounts it
> would
> have remained on the track The second train was being pulled by its
> engine,
> and it did remain on the track, having said that, the last car on the
> second
> train did come off the track, indeed it came off the train.
>
> The car of the train that hit the Jeep got pushed sideways by the impact,
> and since it was being pushed from behind by the locomotive, it left the
> track. It went to the side where another freight locomotive was parked.
> When
> it hit that engine, then the car went completely sideways. In the mean
> time,
> due to the schedule, another train was coming from the opposite direction
> at
> the same time. As the first train continued down the track, getting worse
> by
> the second, it began to rub on the second train. Eventually the fully
> sideways car of the first train caused the last car of the second train to
> completely leave the tracks, and become disconnected from its train. After
> all of that, the parked freight locomotive was tipped over and its fuel
> spilled out and ignited.
>
> As a result of this accident, there might be a new rule for trains to
> always
> be pulled from the front and never pushed from the back. I don't know how
> this can be accomplished because most commuter trains have no means of
> turning around. My guess is that they will keep engines on sidings, and
> pull
> the train the parked engine, then drive that engine (pointed the opposite
> direction) to the back of the train, and swap engines. This will
> efffectively turn the train around without having to put in a turn table.
> It
> will require lots of new engines for the commuter train systems.
>
>
>
> "Brian Foster" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Guy in LA used one to derail a comuter train. Killed 11 people and
>> injured
>> 180. That's not very cool.
>>
>> But who would of thought a Jeep could derail a train?
>>
>> I would of thought it would look like a soda can after it was run over by
> a
>> train.....
>>
>>
>
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