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[quote user="blue streak 1"] Speculation on the derailment itself.  It appears that the engines proceeded the oil cans themselves down the hill.  If either the engine was attached or was just  pushed down the hill raises the question of why the cars derailed but not the engines.  The center of gravity of the locomotives may have been low enough for them to remain on the track.   Any observation of tank cars makes one realize that their center of gravity is high probably just a few inches below the center of the tank when it is full.  That may have enabled the locos to go thru the curve but not the tank cars.  Anyone able to do the calculations ??[/quote] I think that theory is quite probable.  The engines were not going fast enough to upset in the curve, and the tanks were.  It must have been one big nightmare when that train came storming through town.  I understand the stringlining theory, but at that high speed, I don't think the dragging brakes could have generated enough resistence to stringline the cars ahead of them.
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