re: Train Derailment in Pecos, TX

NTSB released some preliminary info about the crash. The truck was stuck on the tracks for just over one minute when it was struck, the train did dump the air and went into emergency braking but was still going 68 mph at impact. Speed limit is 70 in the area. The event data recorder was recovered and sent to DC for analysis. They did correct the part about the load being part of a wind turbine and said the trailer involved was not a low boy but rather a hydraulic platform trailer. The trailer became stuck less than a minute before the signals activated and the arms came down and impact was shortly after. So all the speculation about calling the number on the sign is mute, nothing would have prevented the crash once the truck got hung up, the crew may have saw the truck crossing the tracks and get hung up but couldn't do anything to get stopped. Bad deal.