>>227372 (last bread)

I'm still thinking the train hit the trailer, separated it from the cab at the crossing, then dragged the trailer down the tracks until the trailer slid down the embankment.

In that case, then, if the truck was traveling right to left (in the wide angle photo) and tried to go around the cross blocks (zig zag), it would explain the angled hit, and the location of the wreckage.

Also, this is probably the resting position of the train right after the accident.

That's the back locomotive, so the train basically stopped within a train's length of the impact.

We should be able to get a ball park on the train's speed if we know the length of the train.

>>227543

>Also, CSX and Amtrack run on the same rails.

CSX trains are really long.

Maybe the driver sees the crossbucks going down, doesn't want to wait for what he thinks is a long CSX train and tries to run the crossing.

He clears the high end one side and is aiming for the higher end of the other crossbuck when the train hits. Explains angled hit.

Also, Amtrak travelling faster than the slow as shit CSX he's used to.

CSX also blows the shit out of the whistle on crossings. Driver doesn't hear the horn so he thinks train is further away.