get them off the railroad crossing and down here to this area. just an incredible scene as we re seeing a lot of ground i think you re seeing as well. we have sky fox. i m going to get back to you in a minute. we re going to check in with you in a minute. i understand we have a railroad reconstructionist expert on the phone. i hope you can hear me, i m sure it s speculation, any idea what might have happened here? i ve heard reports that there may have been an impact with a csx freight train of some type. we don t know any details of that we have reports of significant damage to the front end of the passenger train. and one of the only things that would be likely to cause that would be impact with something very substantial most likely another train. something like that happens, if and i understand you re just hearing these things we don t know if it s factual as of
yet. if an impact like that what kind of force are we talking about? we re talking enough force to derail an 8 to 10 car train, possibly the entire train. a lot more force than if you collided two automobiles. the amount of weight and momentum is unbelievable. i would this is exactly what you re seeing i m not sure robert and again, for people who are joining us you are a railroad accident reconstructionist, if you ve seen our video from sky fox, have you seen it at all? yes. you ve seen what we ve all been looking at which looks like a bunch of twisted metal and wreckage. we don t know whether some of that is the train, whether it s something the train ran into but when you see that knowing your background and what you do to try to figure out what happened what does that seen tell you? one of the critical one critical