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That wreck was mentioned in this thread in the third post.  It did strangely emerge as being directly related to the topic here, and remains that way.  However, the story has changed since first being reported.  Initially, as I understand it, they said that the train crew saw the girls and dumped the air.  And the assumption was that the derailment was caused by dynamiting of the brakes.  The derailment killed the two girls. Now they are saying that the crew never saw the two girls, and did not put the brakes into emergency.  So the question is this: Did something cause the brakes to dynamite, and then the dynamiting cause the wreck? Or did something cause the wreck, and then the wreck caused the brakes to dynamite? Those issues perfectly mesh with the discussion here about undesired emergency applications caused by kickers or by this newest revelation of slack action.  However, there is also the possibility of a burst air hose or broken brake pipe.  All of those causes would be examples of the emergency application coming first and then causing the wreck. But the wreck could have come first due to a wide assortment of possible causes.  I assume that one of those causes could have been bad train handling.  I don’t know what possible results might have flowed from too much throttle through that area.  It appears that several cars are laid out in line, on their sides. The news reporting has been insufferable in this instance.  On one hand, they have the girls sitting on the edge of the bridge with the train passing two feet behind their backs.  And yet the crew did not see them.  The train tipped toward them and spilled coal onto them, but the cars did not hit them.  They were found suffocated in the coal, still sitting on the edge of the bridge.  I don’t how all that works with the train only two feet behind them.  I would say that the train had to be at least 12-15 feet behind them.  In one of their photos, they have their legs hanging over the edge of the bridge.  I don't see how the coal piles up on someone in that position.  I could see it maybe pushing them off of the bridge, but not buying them.  It is a sad story.
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