Spanish train crash captured on video

[Speedy]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp/52574366#52574366

Going too fast.

[mikebw]

Seems strange how it wasn't the engine that went off first, although maybe that is the locomotive equivalent of fishtailing?

[DeusxMac]

mikebw wrote:
Seems strange how it wasn't the engine that went off first, although maybe that is the locomotive equivalent of fishtailing?

Engine would be heavier; perhaps lower center of gravity, and thus less likely to tip critically going too-fast around corner.

[cbelt3]

Dios Mio ! All those poor people...

[space-time]

it looks like there is virtually no banking in that curve. I would expect some banking on a tight curve like that on a high speed line

[OWC Jamie]

space-time wrote:
it looks like there is virtually no banking in that curve. I would expect some banking on a tight curve like that on a high speed line

50mph speed limit supposedly, as it is a shared track and not a high speed section of track.