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[quote user="mistertrains"]Even with the "fire on the locomotive" scenario that seems to be emerging, it appears that somebody had to have uncoupled the tank cars from the locomotives. If so, and at that point, an appropriate number of cars' handbrakes should have been set.[/quote] The fire seems to be adequately confirmed.  Also confirmed is the fact that the handbrakes did not prevent the train from rolling. I am doubting the fleeting reports that the engines were uncoupled from the train.  I suspet that this is distorted information referring to the fact that the engines separated from the train as the cars piled up in the derailment.  Hence the engines were found "uncoupled from the train."  It is similar to the earlier distortion that the train was operated by some sort of remote control, which apparently arose from the reports that the runaway train was un-manned, which of course it was.
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