seemed like a key piece of evidence. the railroad bridge had a concrete pier that was holding up the bridge structure, and there was very fresh damage to the concrete of that bridge pier. something had hit the point of the pier. was it one of the mauvilla s barges? had the mauvilla caused the sunset limited to derail? when we found the left-hand barge, there was a similar mark of scraped paint and an indentation into the metal. in fact, it kind of looked t-shaped, which would indicate that the barge hit the top or flat portion as well as the edge of it, and it kind of gave it a little t-shaped mark. the other barges revealed more surprising clues. the center barge also had damage. there were vertical scrapes and an indentation.
required at the time, but the pilot, willie odom, wasn t trained to use it. when investigators heard odom s story, they went back to the bridge to examine what now seemed like a key piece of evidence. the railroad bridge had a concrete pier that was holding up the bridge structure, and there was very fresh damage to the concrete of that bridge pier. something had hit the point of the pier. was it one of the mauvilla s barges? had the mauvilla caused the sunset limited to derail? when we found the left-hand barge, there was a similar mark of scraped paint and an indentation into the metal. in fact, it kind of looked t-shaped, which would indicate that the barge hit the top or flat portion as well as the edge of it, and it kind of gave it a little t-shaped mark. the other barges revealed more surprising clues. the center barge also had
the railroad bridge had a concrete pier that was holding up the bridge structure, and there was very fresh damage to the concrete of that bridge pier. something had hit the point of the pier. was it one of the mauvilla s barges? had the mauvilla caused the sunset limited to derail? when we found the left-hand barge, there was a similar mark of scraped paint and an indentation into the metal. in fact, it kind of looked t-shaped, which would indicate that the barge hit the top or flat portion as well as the edge of it and it kind of gave it a little t-shaped mark. the other barges revealed more surprising clues. the center barge also had damage. there were vertical scrapes and an indentation. a clue to the cause of the scrapes was found on the