Really? Could you point to the actual incident because I’d be curious how that played out in real life.
“This was our last opportunity to stop it,” said Union Pacific spokesman John Bromley. “We knew there were other trains downtown. If it hit other trains or had gone into the downtown area, that was not something we could contemplate.”
Bromley said railroad officials were aware that switching the speeding train to another track would likely cause it to derail.
“We didn’t know it was going to crash into houses, though,” Bromley said.
Miraculously, nobody died.
~Max