Pushes the agency back into the spotlight as they look to find out how the train, with only an engineer aboard, came off the tracks in the first place. Theres track damage and the cars are damaged so its a chicken and egg situation, did the damage come from the car or was the track causing the damage to the car . The accident folded these cars like pretzels and pulled this one dangerously over the edge of the platform. Look at this video from b. A. R. T. You can see the mangled steel and parts of the crushed Commuter Cars b. A. R. T. Says may have been damaged when the train jump evidence its track. This happened in a similar area. The same spot of derailment in march 2011. In 2011, tencar San Francisco bound train came off the tracks. 65 passengers were onboard and some were injured. The damaged cars will eventually up at b. A. R. T. s hayward facility where teams of engineers are equipped to do repairs. B. A. R. T. Says its maintenance that needs to be done so hopefully they use the
Reporter nick smith, who is live at the concord b. A. R. T. Station and begins Team Coverage with a look at the repair to fix the track. Nick . Reporter good news. It seems as though the workers are on track to meet their goal, that is, opening this concord b. A. R. T. Station by 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow. If you listen closely you can hear a clank, clank, clank, the d of steel hitting steel. They have been at it nonstop. They believe they can repair the damage done by the derailment friday evening. The initial outlook is that it looks pretty good. The b. A. R. T. Spokesperson says the tracks have been cleared and repairs started. We are hoping to have Service Restored 8 00 a. M. Sunday morning. Crews have been moving 60,000 pounds of steel and fiberglass with cranes like this. This is one of four b. A. R. T. Cars damaged in the train derailment. The accident brought b. A. R. T. Gm out to see it first hand and pushes the agency back into the spotlight as they look to find out how the train,