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Good lord no....50 year-old eyes. FWIW, I couldn't tell form the pic if there was much lateral movement at that joint, just the vertical.

A colleague who was on the scene showed me a camera phone picture. Does that work for you?

::::::::WILD SPECULATION FOLLOWS:::::::: Like I said, I'm not a train guy, but it seems that if at the join between the concrete ties and the wooden ties, becomes.... I don't know...."unweighted" and then hit an irregularity in the rail, would that be enough? the flange on the inside of the...

Just because it's not been officially stated to the media doesn't mean that "officials" aren't saying it. I'm sure you didn't mean to come across as aggressive as you did.

it might be nothing, but I saw that there is an orange box spray painted around the rail joint on the east (right?) track rail. (circled in red, lower left corner of pic.) This is almost exactly where 1402 left the track. There appears to be a slight misalignment/height difference there, perhaps...

Gents (and Ladies too, I reckon) I'm not a train enthusiast, but I am local to this event and have been following this thread with great interest. A tremendous amount of data and detail, I must say. Thank you for that. Re: the folks who were discussing transporting engine 1402 from the scene...