Fire after fuel train hits 18-wheeler on crossing

[dave1905]

BNSF

 

[melmerby]

8 minutes ago, John M Upton said:

Whose train was it?   In all this I have found no actual mention of the railroad company whose train it was.

It was mentioned in some of the early reports (BNSF) it looks like part of the AT&SF route

[Michael Hodgson]

6 hours ago, GP9u said:

 Hence the addition of vertical yellow reflective decal stripes spaced out along the sides of tanks cars and some other freight cars. 

 

 

I thought it was the drivers who were spaced out ?

[pH]

26 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

I thought it was the drivers who were spaced out ?

 

It's not too difficult to become disoriented in darkness in open countryside. I've thought I was seeing a passenger train with lighted windows at a distance one dark night in Arizona, which turned out to be a freight with these 'hi vis' stripes on the side of the cars, much closer than I thought it was. Fortunately, while I was approaching it  at an angle, we weren't heading for a crossing.