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[quote user="narig01"]Couple of comments. Could the explosion been the fuel in one of the locomotive fuel tanks? Diesel will make a big whallup but it burns slower then other combustibles. (hence a big fire ball but not a lot of blown out windows). [/quote] But there was indeed a lot of blown out windows.  From the sketchy news and the aerial images, it seems that the entire face of the adjacent building was heavily damaged, including the destruction of all windows.  And that appears to be maybe 100 feet back from the tracks.  It is hard to tell from those spectator videos, but one appears to have knocked people off their feet, and they were many hundreds of feet away.  So it was a powerful explosion.  I would say it was dozens of times more powerful than the Boston bombing explosion, for example.
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