There is the possibility of the Metrolink unit, being push nose down, by the impact, somehow picked up the rear, sending it over the sill system, and into the soft body of the upper car. This could explain why the car sill appears that it may have gone under the locomotive and appears to have sheared off the fuel tank in almost one piece. A foot or two or so of displacement might do that? If that were the case, the irony of that may be that it might have faired better, in cab car mode. This part of the analysis is going to take weeks. This involves modeling the physics of how the impact happened, and what it did to the engine and that lead car, from the evidence.

This is going to make a hell of a report from what's come out so far, maybe we'll learn some things that will save lives in the future. All so apparently unnecesary though. I hate these kind of accidents.

The Times had a reference to someone on one of the trains texting, on its blog.... Did anyone pick that up, and is their anything to that?