Louisville derailment - 1/16

MBTA> yes, we did. Thank you for your concern.

Strange how the lightbulbs/light covers did not break.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=172430
Looking at 403's good side and bad side it is easy to tell where the heat was more intense.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=172429
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... ?id=628012
Something similar happen in the 1990s (I think that is the right decade) with a BN(SF) train. The crew was alerted that a cut of (coal) cars was loose and making a beeline towards them. The crew left the locomotives in a hurry, got to a safe vantage point, and watched the show.

U-Haul wrote:Strange how the lightbulbs/light covers did not break.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=172430

The Headlights?

Yeah, you can see the primer on #151 and #403. If someone accidently was trapped, and survived, they would have felt like they had been in hell.......

Engineer James wrote:Yeah, you can see the primer on #151 and #403. If someone accidently was trapped, and survived, they would have felt like they had been in hell.......

Wouldn't have survived. It's a fallacy that a crew can survive hitting a tank or truck of flammable liquid by holding their breath.

Anything that cooks off the paint will do the same to your clothes and skin. The very air would be on fire...there would be NO OXYGEN to breathe...survival would be nil.

Engineer James wrote:Yeah, you can see the primer on #151 and #403. If someone accidently was trapped, and survived, they would have felt like they had been in hell.......

That's ash not primer...