...and the actual train wreck was his fault....
I based the setting for this picture on an accident described in Helper's book The Southern Railway Remembered. At the Alexandria station there was a long curve with a signal. The curve was such that the engineer had to depend on the fireman to let him know if the signal was clear. One morning a freight was rolling in and the engineer asked his fireman about the signal. The fireman said, "I can't see the signal for that caboose is blocking my view." The engineer threw the brakes into emergency but it was too late. His train plowed into the caboose and stood it on end.
The figure of the fireman is a heavily modified Plasticville figure and the upset investigator is a sectioned and modified Bachman figure.
