by AEM7902
<i>Robert you are wrong the train was led by P40/42 and a trailing F40. it consisted out of 14 cars.</i>
Thats the reason why it caught fire, by the way. Genesis had internal fuel tanks and F40s had external frame-hung ones. The MARC cabcar basically hit the 2nd engine and punctured the fuel tank. The fuel spill over the F40 ignited. The engineer was correct to speed up and get out the way but it's hard to see if a stop-and-jump approach (resulting in head-on with P40) would have been better because that could potentially completely destroy the cabcar and its occupants...
Hard to make a decision like that in a split of a second.
Thats the reason why it caught fire, by the way. Genesis had internal fuel tanks and F40s had external frame-hung ones. The MARC cabcar basically hit the 2nd engine and punctured the fuel tank. The fuel spill over the F40 ignited. The engineer was correct to speed up and get out the way but it's hard to see if a stop-and-jump approach (resulting in head-on with P40) would have been better because that could potentially completely destroy the cabcar and its occupants...
Hard to make a decision like that in a split of a second.
