Living Nightmare

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<p>New video. Looks like Cologne Germany during WW2 saturation bombing firestorm, but on smaller scale.</p>

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What a tragedy.

[byork 2,259]

 

 

It doesn't look like hand brakes were applied.

 

There's thought now that that the train may have been tampered with.

 

I did some pretty stupid things when I was a teenager, but if some stupid teenagers were behind this... well....

[Matthew Kane 1,343]

There's thought now that that the train may have been tampered with.

 

I did some pretty stupid things when I was a teenager, but if some stupid teenagers were behind this... well....

 

The investigation is pointing at the Engineer that was driving the train. He came off his shift, parked the train on the hill, left one of the 5 locomotives running to power the air brakes. He has claimed he had set all of the 11 hand brakes required for a train this size, but it appears that is not true.

 

The fire is irrelevant had all 11 hand brakes been set properly and checked by doing a 'push pull' maneuver on them. It looks like he did not do this.

 

The driver has now been suspended without pay and the focus of the investigation at this point.

“We think that he applied some handbrakes, the problem is that he didn’t apply enough of them,” —Ed Burkhardt,President of Railworld Inc