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There seems to be 2 plausible ways that this could have happened (at least as far as my pea-brain can figure out) and unfortunately both would have seemed to have been caused by crew error. This looks like a pretty basic single siding, opposing train meet. If you assume that the grain train is the inferior train and is taking the siding, than did the auto rack train fail to stop short of the east switch and hit the side of the grain train as it was entering the siding? Or, if you reverse it and assume that the grain train was holding the main, then the auto rack train would have had to have gone into the siding, ran the length of the siding and then hit the side of the grain train as the auto train exceeded their signal and was coming back out of the siding. This seems less likely because if the crew had fallen asleep, their speed would have perhaps caused them to derail on the switch going into the siding. It just raises questions of crew fatigue being a cause. ... or there's always the potential of a failed signal. We'll have to wait to see.
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